Morphometric characterization of the mesoamerican slider (trachemys venusta, emydidae) from the atrato river basin, colombia.

A group of 89 sliders, Trachemys venusta, were confiscated by the local authorities in the Atrato river basin of Colombia. The life history of this species has known from populations in different countries but in Colombia there is only one anecdotic report that is 50 years old. Given the wide biogeo...