Chelonoidis carbonarius (Spix 1824:22)

Holotype or syntypes (number uncertain): Originally in the ZSM, now lost (Hoogmoed & Gruber 1983:354; Franzen & Glaw 2007:208); plate XVI in the original description designated as lectotype (iconotype) by Hoogmoed & Gruber (1983:354).

Testudo boiei Wagler 1830:Pl XIII

Holotype or syntypes (number uncertain): Originally in the ZSM, now lost (Hoogmoed & Gruber 1983:354; Franzen & Glaw 2007:207). Plate XIII in Wagler (1830a) designated lectotype (iconotype) by Hoogmoed & Gruber (1983:354).

Testudo hercules truncata Gray 1831:3

Holotype: OUM 8461 (illustrated in part 4, Pl. 1 in Bell 1835; Nowak-Kemp & Fritz 2010:16).

Geochelone atlantica t López-Jurado, Mateo, and García-Márquez 1998:111

Holotype: DBULPGC 17 (fossil femur photographed in the original description, p. 112, Fig. 1), paratypes (2 fossils), DBULPGC 18–19 (both photographed in the original description p. 112, Fig. 2). All types genotyped by Kehlmaier et al. (2021:1).