| Big Bend slider
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Reptilia
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| Order:
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Testudines
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| Suborder:
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Cryptodira
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| Family:
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Emydidae
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| Genus:
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Trachemys
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| Species:
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T. gaigeae
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| Binomial name
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Trachemys gaigeae
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| Synonyms
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Nota bene: Dashes indicate scientific names which are simply new combinations, i.e., not new taxa.
- Pseudemys scripta gaigeae
Hartweg, 1939
- Pseudemys gaigeae
— Stejneger & Barbour, 1939
- Pseudemys scripta gagei
Zweig & Crenshaw, 1957
(ex errore)
- Chrysemys scripta gaigeae
— H.M. Smith & Taylor, 1966
- Pseudemys scripta gaigei
Ernst, 1967 (ex errore)
- Chrysemys gaigeae
— Weaver & Rose, 1967
- Pseudemys scripta gaigea Degenhardt & Christiansen, 1974
(ex errore)
- Chrysemys gaigae
Ashton, Edwards & Pisani, 1976
(ex errore)
- Chrysemys gaigea
— Morafka, 1977
- Chrysemys scripta gaigae
— Morafka, 1977
- Trachemys nebulosa gaigeae
— Ward, 1984
- Pseudemys scripta gaigae
— Stebbins, 1985
- Trachemys scripta gaigeae
— Iverson, 1985
- Trachemys gaigeae
— Dixon, 1987
- Trachemys gaigae
— Williamson, Hyder & Applegarth, 1994
- Trachemys ornata gaigeae
— Walls, 1996
- Trachemys gaigeae gaigeae
— Seidel, 2002
- Trachemys scripta gaigae
— Gurley, 2003
- Trachemys nebulosa gaigae
— Joseph-Ouni, 2004
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The Big Bend slider (Trachemys gaigeae), also called commonly the Mexican Plateau slider and la jicotea de la meseta mexicana in Mexican Spanish, is a species of aquatic turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.