Psammobates geometricus (Linnaeus 1758:199)

Syntypes (number uncertain): UPSZTY 20 (formerly ZMUU 20), 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).