Maranhão slider
Trachemys dorbigni (Duméril & Bibron, 1835)
Status not recordedturtles and tortoises
The maranhão slider (Trachemys dorbigni) is a species in the family Emydidae, order Testudines. Recorded adults weigh 900 g to 1.9 kg and live up to 30 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Brazil.
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Quick facts about the maranhão slider
- Weight
- 900 g – 1.9 kgsrc for Weight
- Length
- up to 30 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- 30 yearssrc for Lifespan
- Diet
- Omnivoresrc for Diet
- Longest recorded lifespan
- 75 years
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Egg incubation
- 67.9 dayssrc for Egg incubation
- Young per litter or clutch
- 9.7src for Young per litter or clutch
- Age at maturity
- 4 years – 7.99 yearssrc for Age at maturity
- Litters or clutches a year
- 2src for Litters or clutches a year
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
Where does the maranhão slider live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The maranhão slider is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the maranhão slider as introduced in 1 country, and flagged as invasive in it.
- Brazilinvasive
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
Is the maranhão slider endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the maranhão slider classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderTestudines
- familyEmydidae
- genusTrachemys
- SpeciesTrachemys dorbigni (Duméril & Bibron, 1835)
Synonyms Chrysemys dorbignyi, Clemmys dorbigni, Emys dorbigni, Pseudemys dorbignyi brasiliensis
Other names and names in other languages (33)
- Black-bellied sliderEnglish
- Brazilian sliderEnglish
- Carvalho's sliderEnglish
- D'Orbigny's sliderEnglish
- D’Orbigny’s sliderEnglish
- Northern d'orbigny's sliderEnglish
- Orbigny's sliderEnglish
- Southern d'orbigny's sliderEnglish
- سلحفاة منزلقة برازيليةArabic
- سلحفاة منزلقة سوداء البطنArabic
- želva brazilskáCzech
- želva uruguayskáCzech
- Sydbrasiliansk TerrapinDanish
- D'Orbigny-SchmuckschildkröteGerman
- Argentinische SchmuckschildkröteGerman
- Brasilianische SchmuckschildkröteGerman
- Südamerikanische SchmuckschildkröteGerman
- Tortuga de panza negraSpanish
- MorrocoyoSpanish
- Tortuga pintadaSpanish
- brazil ékszerteknősHungarian
- Testuggine scivolatrice di D'OrbignyItalian
- ミナミクジャクガメJapanese
- Braziliaanse sierschildpadDutch
- TartarugaPortuguese
- Tartaruga-ImperialPortuguese
- Tartaruga-VerdadeiraPortuguese
- Tartaruga-Verde-e-AmarelaPortuguese
- Tigre-D'águaPortuguese
- Tigre-D'água-AmareloPortuguese
- Бразильская украшенная черепахаRussian
- เต่าสไลเดอร์บราซิลThai
- 南美彩龜 (斑彩龜)Chinese
Relatives of the maranhão slider
Other species in the same genus Trachemys.
Slider
Trachemys scripta
Big bend slider
Trachemys gaigeae
Maranhao slider
Trachemys adiutrix
Jicotea
Trachemys decorata
Cuban slider
Trachemys decussata
Inagua slider
Trachemys stejnegeri
CompareMaranhão slider vs SliderMaranhão slider vs Big bend sliderMaranhão slider vs Maranhao sliderMaranhão slider vs Jicotea
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the maranhão slider?
An adult maranhão slider weighs 900 g – 1.9 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the maranhão slider live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the maranhão slider for 1 country: Brazil. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
How long does the maranhão slider live?
The maranhão slider has a recorded lifespan of 30 years.
Is the maranhão slider an invasive species?
In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the maranhão slider as invasive in 1 country: Brazil. It lists it as introduced in 1 in all.
What kind of animal is the maranhão slider?
The maranhão slider (Trachemys dorbigni) belongs to the family Emydidae in the order Testudines.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. - ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
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