Holotype of Pseudemys decorata

Date Collected:

1933-01-01/2033-02-28

Central America: Haiti: Ouest Department: Greater Antilles: Hispaniola | Fond Parisian

Media type: image; Herpetology R-36862

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Current Identification
Trachemys decorata (Barbour and Carr, 1940)
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Anapsida Testudinata Cryptodira Testudinoidea Emydidae
Common Name(s): Haitian slider; Hispaniolan elegant slider; Hispaniolan slider; Jicotea
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: migration
Previous Identifications
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Anapsida Testudinata Cryptodira Testudinoidea Emydidae
Determiner: Catalog
Nature of ID: migration
Remarks: Catalog/1997
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Anapsida Testudinata Cryptodira Testudinoidea Emydidae
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Catalog/1997; Identification Made Date: 1940

Barbour and Carr 1940, page 409, Holotype of Pseudemys decorata CURR ID = Trachemys decorata; Barbour & Carr, 1940, Mem Mus Comp Zool, 54, p 409, pl ix, figs 3-4; INV:F 1Sep2000 CKenaley
Media type: text; Barbour and Carr 1940 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. LIV No. 5;

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Shows Publication: Barbour and Carr 1940 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. LIV No. 5

  • muse location number: ZR36861

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: muscle; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-03-16
subsampled by = Rina Morisawa   determined date=2022-03-04   determined by=Rina Morisawa  
whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 1 History (3)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Rina Morisawa 2022-03-16

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  • INV:F 1Sep2000 CKenaley. Specimen located in SST #22 as of 01AUG2016 CFalvey

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  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Haiti
  • State/Province:
  • Ouest Department
  • Island Group:
  • Greater Antilles
  • Island:
  • Hispaniola
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7005518 linked data icon
  • Specific Locality:
  • Fond Parisian
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Fond Parisian, Haiti
  • Georeference:
  • 18.5053005°, -71.971397° (Error radius: 0.893km) By: Elisa Bonaccorso on 2004-06-18 (Source: JOG NE 18-8)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1933-01-01 / 2033-02-28
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 0/1/1933-0/2/1933
  • Collector:
  • M. Andain

  • None

Media type: text; Herpetology R-36851;  R-36852;  R-36853;  R-36854;  R-36855;  R-36856;  R-36857;  R-36858;  R-36859;  R-36860;  R-36861;  R-36862;  R-36863;  R-36864;  R-36865;  R-36866;  R-36867;  R-36868;  R-36869;  R-36870;  R-36871;  R-36872;  R-36873;  R-36874;  R-36875;  R-36876;  R-36877;  R-36878;  R-36879;  R-36880;  R-36881;  R-36882;  R-36883;  R-36884;  R-36885;  R-36886;  R-36887;  R-36888;  R-36889;  R-36890;  R-36891;  R-36892;  R-36893;  R-36894;  R-36895;  R-36896;  R-36897;  R-36898;  R-36899;  R-36900 Description: MCZ Herpetology Reptiles 032001-044000, pg.98;

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Media type: text; Herpetology R-36862 documents cataloged_item R-36865 documents cataloged_item R-36866 documents cataloged_item R-33948 documents cataloged_item R-34334 documents cataloged_item R-34335 documents cataloged_item R-34336 documents cataloged_item R-34337 documents cataloged_item R-34338 documents cataloged_item R-34339 documents cataloged_item R-34340 documents cataloged_item R-34341 documents cataloged_item R-34342 documents cataloged_item R-34343 documents cataloged_item R-34344 documents cataloged_item R-34345 documents cataloged_item R-44854 documents cataloged_item R-44855 documents cataloged_item R-44856 documents cataloged_item R-44857 documents cataloged_item R-46045 documents cataloged_item R-46046 documents cataloged_item R-34134 documents cataloged_item R-34128 documents cataloged_item R-34129 documents cataloged_item R-34130 documents cataloged_item R-34131 documents cataloged_item R-34132 documents cataloged_item R-34133 documents cataloged_item R-34135 Description: Herpetology Types volume, 1946, page 129;

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