Emys decussata Gray, 1831

Nowak-Kemp, Małgosia & Fritz, Uwe, 2010, Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum, Zootaxa 2604 (1), pp. 1-19 : 9

Emys decussata Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: p. 11

Current name: Trachemys decussata (Gray, 1831)

Syntypes (7 specimens): OUM 8452 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 35a; whole, stuffed specimen, SCL 23.2 cm) ; OUM 8453 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 35b; shell, female, SCL 18.8 cm) ; OUM 8454 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 35c; shell, female, with dried head, tail, all four limbs, pectoral and pelvic girdles, SCL 17.7 cm) ; OUM 8455 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 35d; shell, juvenile, SCL 14.6 cm) ; OUM 8456 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 35e; whole, dry specimen, juvenile, SCL 11.2 cm) ; OUM 8457 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 35f; shell, juvenile, SCL 11.2 cm) ; OUM 8458 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 35g; whole, dry specimen, juvenile, SCL 6.1 cm) .

Remarks: According to Gray (1831a: p. 28), further syntypes are in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London; the description obviously was also based on live specimens kept in Gray’s garden (“ Hort. nost. ” = Hortus noster, our garden). King & Burke (1989: p. 60) erroneously state that BMNH 1947.3.4.79 from the Natural History Museum, London, is the holotype of Emys decussata .