Kinixys spekii Gray 1863:381

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 54-55

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6328720

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F8788-FFA3-FFC8-D973-FFBCFDEA252F

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scientific name

Kinixys spekii Gray 1863:381
status

 

Kinixys spekii Gray 1863:381

Holotype: BMNH 1947.3 .5.74 (formerly 1863.8.11.8).

Kinixys darlingi Boulenger 1902:15

Holotype: BMNH 1946.1 .22.60 (formerly 1902.2.12.1; illustrated in the original description, Pl. IV); no paratypes designated.

Testudo procterae Loveridge 1923:928

Holotype: BMNH 1946.1 .22.59 (formerly 1923.10.9.102); paratype (1), no located but not in BMNH.

Kinixys australis Hewitt 1931:477

Syntypes (number uncertain, although apparently originally in the AMG and TMP; some may have been destroyed in the 1941 fire in the AMG; Broadley 1981a:212); those photographed in the original description [Pl. XXXVI, Fig. 4–6] do not match existing specimens ( Broadley 1981a:212). AMG 78C designated lectotype by Broadley (1981a:212; illustrated therein p. 213, Fig. 11), who identified five syntypes in the AMG (one numbered AMG 1295).

Kinixys jordani Hewitt 1931:482

Syntypes (2): Apparently in the AMG; photographed in the original description (Pl. XXXVII, Figs. 7–9) .

Kinixys youngi Hewitt 1931:486

Syntypes (3): Apparently in the AMG; photographed in the original description (Pl. XXXVII, Figs. 10–11) .

Kinixys australis mababiensis Fitzsimons 1932: 37

Holotype: TMP 14689 (formerly VLKE 1344 ; Anon 1958:128); no paratypes designated.

AMG

Albany Museum

TMP

Transvaal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Testudinidae

Genus

Kinixys

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