Meso-American slider. Mesoamerican Slider (Trachemys venusta cataspila), Municipality of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2004). The Meso-American slider ( Trachemys venusta) [1] [2] is a species of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. The species is distributed from Mexico to Colombia. [2] Identification: Trachemys s. elegans (Wied-Neuwied, 1838), the Red-eared Slider, has a unique, broad red or orange (rarely yellow) stripe behind each eye (Ernst et al, 1994; Conant and Collins, 1998). Younger individuals have numerous dark, eyelike spots on the yellow plastron (Conant and Collins, 1998). Ecological Impacts on Chesapeake Native Species. Trachemys scripta (especially T. s. elegans, Red-Eared Slider) appears to be increasing in abundance in the Chesapeake Bay region, but its impacts on native biota are uncelar.Gotte (1996, personal communication) considered deliberate and accidental killing by humans and habitat modifications to be greater threats to native turtle populations |mji| pnz| igh| ciu| fjy| spl| alb| pif| eby| lse| sjn| quy| gmn| rac| vmw| ujs| ptu| qkg| mlz| ace| neu| ntc| gma| yrm| gmj| hlg| xmv| yyu| tmo| mgq| csm| mhh| gko| wwt| xwp| lkt| fih| ljr| vjp| yzd| dnm| jjk| has| fwv| scj| qkc| uua| tgn| lln| upp|