Emys hamiltonii Gray, 1831

Nowak-Kemp, Małgosia & Fritz, Uwe, 2010, Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum, Zootaxa 2604 (1), pp. 1-19 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2604.1.1

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Emys hamiltonii Gray
status

 

Emys hamiltonii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: p. 9

Current name: Geoclemys hamiltonii (Gray, 1831)

Syntype (1 specimen): OUM 8477 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 34a; whole, dried specimen, SCL 7.1 cm).

Remarks: King & Burke (1989) list BMNH 1947.3.4.41 as holotype; however, this specimen should rather be regarded as syntype since it is clear that Gray (1831a: p. 72) had studied specimens from the collections of the “ British Museum [= the Natural History Museum, London] and Mr. Bell’s ”. The dimensions of OUM 8477 agree with the ones given in Gray’s (loc. cit.) description.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Emydidae

Genus

Emys

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