Testudo graeca Linnaeus 1758:198

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 57-58

Testudo graeca Linnaeus 1758:198

Holotype: Not designated; Iconotype: the color figure in Plate 204 in Edwards (1751; see Bour 1987a:111) according to Loveridge & Williams (1957:264– 265) and Bour (1987a:111); reproduced in Bour (1987a:111, Fig. 1), Bour (2001:18, Fig. 4), Devaux (2001:31), Pieh (2002:112), and Schweiger & Gemel (2020:32).

Testudo pusilla Linnaeus 1758:199

Holotype: Not located; once in the UPSZTY

(= UUZM; Linné & Thunberg 1780:3), but apparentlylostsincelistedbyThunberg(1828:49), but not by Lönnberg (1896), Andersson (1900), Holm (1957), or Wallin (2001).

Testudo mauritanica Duméril & Bibron 1835:44

Syntypes (number uncertain): USNM 10980 ( Cochran 1961:235; formerly MNHN 22) may be a syntype ( Reynolds et al. 2007:32); color figure in Pl. 204 in Edwards (1751) designated lectotype by Bour (1987a:111). MNHN 0.1937 unecessarily designated neotype by Schweiger & Gemel (2020:34–36).

Testudo graeca soussensis Pieh 2001:211

Holotype: MTD 33842 (photographed in the original description, p. 214, Figs. 2–3); paratypes (4), MNHN 19996-7801; MTD 31012 and 33843; and SMNS 4647 .

Testudo graeca armeniaca Ckhikvadze & Bakradze 1991:60

Holotype: GNM (formerly ANGSSR) 13.3.007 (photographed in the original description; pp. 61–62, Figs. 1–3); paratype (1), ZIN ANSSSR 5545 .

Testudo graeca pallasi Ckhikvadze & Bakradze 2002:276

Holotype: GNM NQ 13.3.5 (formely IPANG).

Testudo dagestanica Ckhikvadze, Mazanaeva , & Shammakov 2011:337

Holotype: GNM 13.11.1.