American Red-bellied Turtle, Pseudemys rubriventris, hand-colored lithograph
Date 1842
Source North American herpetology; or, A description of the reptiles inhabiting the United States. , modified from Biodiversity Heritage Library
Author John Edwards Holbrook, 1794-1871
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pseudemys_rubriventrisHolbrookV1P06.jpg

The northern red-bellied turtle (Pseudemys rubriventris) or American red-bellied turtle is a species of turtle in the Pseudemys (cooter) genus of the family Emydidae.

Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Pseudemys
Species: Pseudemys rubriventris (LeConte, 1830)
Synonyms

Testudo rubriventris LeConte, 1830
Terrapene rubriventris Bonaparte, 1830
Emys irrigata Bell, 1835
Emys irrigita Duméril & Bibron, 1835 (ex errore)
Emys rubriventris Duméril & Bibron, 1835
Clemmys (Clemmys) rubriventris Fitzinger, 1835
Chrysemys rubriventris Boulenger, 1889
Pseudemys rubriventris Baur, 1893
Pseudemys rubriventris bangsi Babcock, 1937
Pseudemys rubriventris rubriventris Babcock, 1937
Chrysemys rubriventris rubriventris Weaver & Rose, 1967
Chrysemys rubriventris bangsi Ernst & Barbour, 1972
Pseudemys bangsi Collins, 1991
Chrysemys rubriventris fubriventris Gosławski & Hryniewicz, 1993 (ex errore)