Geochelone elegans ( Schoepff 1795:111 )

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 52

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6328712

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scientific name

Geochelone elegans ( Schoepff 1795:111 )
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Geochelone elegans ( Schoepff 1795:111)

Holotype / Syntypes: Not located, although Schoepff (1795) stated that the specimen illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXV) was from the “Museis Hagae Comitis et Harlemi” [possibly in the TSMHN in Haarlem, Netherlands]. Note that Wallin (1977:77) showed that the Linnaean type of Testudo geometrica ( UUZM 20; Wallin 2001:126) is this species, rather than Psammobates geometricus (see Comment under that species).

Testudo actinodes Bell 1828:419

Syntypes (at least 5): OUM 8555-56, 8558-60 (Nowak-Kemp & Fritz 2010:16); although none of these is the specimen illustrated by Bell (1828: Pl. XXIII). Hence, additional syntypes may exist.

Testudo megalopus Blyth 1854:640

Holotype: ZSI 792 ( Das et al. 1998:127; not located by Kundu et al. 2018:13).

Peltastes stellatus maura Gray 1870:8

Holotype: Not located; presumably BMNH ( Gray 1873:8), apparently lost.

Peltastes stellatus seba Gray 1870:8

Holotype: BMNH 1843.2 .29.6 ( Gray 1873:8), apparently lost.

UUZM

Uppsala University, Zoological Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Testudinidae

Genus

Geochelone

Loc

Geochelone elegans ( Schoepff 1795:111 )

Iverson, John B. 2022
2022
Loc

Peltastes stellatus maura

Gray, J. E. 1870: 8
1870
Loc

Peltastes stellatus seba

Gray, J. E. 1870: 8
1870
Loc

Testudo actinodes

Bell, T. 1828: 419
1828
Loc

Geochelone elegans ( Schoepff 1795:111 )

Schoepff, J. D. 1795: 111
1795
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