Educational resources on Jamaican Slider

Jamaican Slider or Trachemys terrapen is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to B1+2c. IUCN Profile of the Jamaican Slider

Academic web links for the Jamaican Slider.

EMYSystem Species Page: Trachemys terrapen (Jamaican Slider)
Original Description: Bonnaterre 1789: 30: Type Locality "aux Antilles & particulierement a la Jamaïque [= Jamaica] . . . tres commune dans les lacs"
emys.geo.orst.edu/collection/species/Trachemysterrapen/Trachemysterrapen.html

CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY International Journal of Thrtle and ...
B~print From: (ISSN 1071-8443) CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY International Journal of Thrtle and Tortoise Research Volume 4, Number 4 2005 Ecology of the Jamaican Slider
www.uga.edu/srelherp/staff/TTubervillepdfs/Tuberville%20et%20al_2005_Jamaican%20slider...

EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Trachemys terrapen (Jamaican Slider)
Original Description Bonnaterre 1789: 30 Holotype Not located Type Locality "aux Antilles & particulierement a la Jamaïque [= Jamaica] . . . tres commune dans les lacs"
emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/species/Trachemysterrapen/Trachemysterrapen.html

CARIBHERP: Bahamas
Schoepff, 1792. RED-EARED SLIDER . Trachemys stejnegeri Schmidt, 1928. DOMINICAN SLIDER . Trachemys terrapen . Lacepède, 1788. JAMAICAN SLIDER
evo.bio.psu.edu/caribherp/lists/BAH-LIST.HTM

Tracey Tuberville's CV
Ecology of the Jamaican slider turtle (Trachemys terrapen), with implications for conservation and management. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4:908-915.
www.uga.edu/srelherp/staff/TTubervilleCV.htm

CARIBHERP: Jamaica
Trachemys terrapen. Lacépède, 1788. JAMAICAN SLIDER . CROCODILIANS : FAMILY CROCODYLIDAE : Crocodylus acutus . Cuvier, 1807. AMERICAN CROCODILE
evo.bio.psu.edu/caribherp/lists/JAM-LIST.HTM

EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Trachemys (Slider Turtles)
T. terrapen (Jamaican Slider) Original Description Agassiz 1857: 434 Common Name Slider Turtles Distribution USA and Mexico south to Argentina; West Indies
emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/genus/Trachemys/Trachemys.html

CARIBHERP: Checklist of West Indian amphibians and reptiles
SPECIES (736) AUTHORS. COMMON NAMES. AMPHIBIANS (197) FAMILY AROMOBATIDAE (1) Allobates chalcopis
evo.bio.psu.edu/caribherp/lists/wi-list.htm

Trachemys
Trachemys terrapen —Jamaican slider. Jason Zimmer 2000
users.edinboro.edu/plindeman/trachemys.html

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--7
259, 286; and Pritchard 1979, Encycl. Turt. :124. See comments under Trachemys. CONTRIBUTOR: R. Burke, W. King. REVIEWER: M. Seidel. GEOGRAPHIC CODE: JM. COMMON NAME: Jamaican slider.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst7.htm