Pelusios niger (Duméril & Bibron 1835:397)

Holotype: MNHN 8954 (illustrated in the original description, Pl. XX, Fig. 1 [though mislabeled; see Bour 2009d:33] and reproduced in Bour 2009d:34; photographed in Bour & Maran 2003:26 and Bour 2009d:36).

Sternothaerus oxyrhinus Boulenger 1897:919

Holotype: Not located; possibly BMNH, apparently lost; illustrated in the original description (Pl. LIII), and reproduced in Bour (2009d:34).

Sternothaerus heinrothi Kanberg 1924:195

Holotype: ZMB 8232 (Fritz et al. 1994:163); paratypes (2), ZMB 30122 and another unlocated specimen (Fritz et al. 1994:163).