Emys speciosa Gray, 1831
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Emys speciosa Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: p. 10
Current name: Glyptemys insculpta (Le Conte, 1830)
Syntypes (3 specimens): OUM 8489 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 27a; shell, SCL 18.9 cm, bears small label with number “175”; also holotype of Emys speciosa var. levigata Gray, 1831 ) ; OUM 8490 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 27b; whole, stuffed male, SCL 16.6 cm, bears red oval label, label with number “368” and another label with “ Zool. Soc. ”) ; OUM 8491 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 27c; whole, stuffed juvenile, SCL 11.3 cm) .
Remarks: According to Gray (1831a: p. 26), further syntypes are in the Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.
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