Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827 : p. 395

Nowak-Kemp, Małgosia & Fritz, Uwe, 2010, Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum, Zootaxa 2604 (1), pp. 1-19 : 15

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

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scientific name

Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827 : p. 395
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Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827: p. 395 , pl. XVI: figs 1, 2

Current name: Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827

Lectotype: OUM 1092 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 13a; shell, SCL 14.4 cm, bears small label with number “5”or “6”).

Paralectotype: OUM 8528 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 13b; shell, plastral forelobe missing, SCL 12.3 cm, bears small label with illegible number).

Remarks: Bell (1827: pp. 394–395, 397) explicitly states that his description of Pyxis arachnoides was based on two shells in his collection, one of which (now OUM 8528) had lost the movable plastral forelobe. Two further ethanol-preserved specimens (both catalogued under number OUM 8782) must have been acquired later and bear, therefore, no type status. Although somewhat idealized, the carapace figured in Bell (1827: fig. 1) agrees quite well with OUM 8528, while the ventral view (fig. 2) corresponds to OUM 1092. Bour (1978: p. 153) designated the latter specimen as lectotype of Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Testudinidae

Genus

Pyxis

Loc

Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827 : p. 395

Nowak-Kemp, Małgosia & Fritz, Uwe 2010
2010
Loc

Pyxis arachnoides

Bell, T. 1827: 395
1827
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