Endangered
Maranhão slider
Trachemys adiutrix
Maranhão slider is a turtle in the family Emydidae — Trachemys adiutrix, recorded as Endangered and tied to Brazil.
Appearance
The carapace has starts out green and with yellow to red patterns, but as the turtle ages the carapace darkens and turns brown. The seams of the carapace are dark brown or black, while the rim is yellow-white to yellow, and has a slightly serrated posterior. The plastron is flat and yellow, with a pattern of thick dark lines.
T. Adiutrix is variable in size, males have a carapace length of 99.1–185.5 cm (39.0–73.0 in) and a plastron length of 88.7–156.2 cm (34.9–61.5 in), while females have a carapace length of 101.5–250.6 cm (40.0–98.7 in) and a plastron length of 101.0–201.6 cm (39.8–79.4 in).
Range and habitat
Maranhão slider is endemic to the coastal areas of Maranhão and Piauí, in northeastern Brazil. The turtle is endemic to coastal areas in northeastern Brazil.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Maranhão slider is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Maranhão slider, Wikidata item Q754976. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
