Psammobates geometricus ( Linnaeus 1758:199 )

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 55-56

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scientific name	Psammobates geometricus ( Linnaeus 1758:199 )
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Psammobates geometricus ( Linnaeus 1758:199)

Syntypes (number uncertain): UPSZTY 20 (formerly ZMUU 20 View Materials ), plus published material. Wallin (1977:77) showed that a Linnaean type specimen (UPSZTY 20) is actually a Geochelone elegans ( Schoepff 1795) ; see also Baard (1991:8) and Wallin (2001:126). To avoid nomenclatural chaos, Hoogmoed & Crumly (1984:241, 254– 55) considered the figure in Piso (1658:105, Fig. 1; reproduced in Hoogmoed & Crumly 1984:p. 255, Fig. 7) as syntypical of P. geometricus , and designated it as lectotype. Bour (2005d:25) and Bour & Pauler (1987:23) photographed a specimen in the NRM, identified it as Mesoclemmys gibba , and considered it a paralectotype of P. geometricus .

Testudo luteola Daudin 1801:277

Holotype: Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXV, Fig. 3); possibly in the MNHN.

Testudo strauchi Lidth de Jeude 1893:312

Holotype: RMNH 6011 ( Hoogmoed et al. 2010:20); illustrated in the original description (Pl. 9), and photographed in Hoogmoed & Crumly (1984:256).