Cuora yunnanensis (Boulenger, 1906:567)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 22-23

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scientific name	Cuora yunnanensis (Boulenger, 1906:567)
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Cuora yunnanensis (Boulenger, 1906:567) View in CoL

Syntypes (6, five photographed in Blanck 2005:11– 12, 17, 20, 21, 24): BMNH 1946.1.22.97 (formerly 1905.5.30.34), 1946.1.22.98 (formerly 1905.5.29.2), 1946.1.22.99 (formerly 1905.5.29.3) and 1946.1.23.1 (formerly 1905.5.29.4),1946.1.23.2(formerly1905.5.29.5), and 1946.1.23.3 (formerly 1905.5.29.6; now SSTM/SNHM unnumbered, though not registered as such in the BMNH catalogue). BMNH 1946.1.22.97 designated as lectotype by Blanck et al. (2005:11).

Cuora zhoui Zhao, 1990: 213 in Zhao, Zhou, & Ye 1990:213

Holotype: NTM 9001 View Materials (genotyped by Tiedemann et al. 2014); paratypes (2), NTM 9002 View Materials , and 9003.

Cuora pallidicephala McCord & Iverson 1991: 414

Holotype: UF 77230 ; paratype (1), UF 77253 .

Cyclemys atripons Iverson & McCord 1997:632 View in CoL

Holotype: USNM 81865 ( Reynolds et al. 2007:23; photographed in Fritz et al. 2001:34; sampled genetically by Stuart & Fritz 2008); paratypes (9), KU 47171 (formerly MCZ 29558), MCZ 29571-72, UF 105992-93; USNM 53423 (photographed in Fritz et al. 2001:35; sampled genetically by Stuart & Fritz 2008 and Fritz et al. 2008), 53424, 79515, 94745 ( Reynolds et al. 2007:23). USNM 94745 photographed in Fritz et al. (2008:380).

References

Blanck, T. (2005) Cuora yunnanensis (Boulenger, 1906), the Yunnan box turtle, rediscovered after one-hundred years? Radiata, 14 (2), 10 - 33.

Fritz, U., Guicking, D., Wink, M. & Lehr, E. (2001) Sind Cyclemys atripons Iverson and McCord, 1997 und Cyclemys pulchristriata Fritz, Gaulke & Lehr, 1997 identisch? Sauria, 23, 33 - 38.

Fritz, U., Guicking, D., Auer, M., Sommer, R. S., Wink, M. & Hundsdorfer, A. K. (2008) Diversity of the Southeast Asian leaf turtle genus Cyclemys: how many leaves on its tree of life? Zoologica Scripta, 37 (4), 367 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.2008.00332. x

Iverson, J. B. & McCord, W. P. (1997) Redescription of the Arakan forest turtle Geoemyda depressa Anderson 1875 (Testudines: Bataguridae). Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2 (3), 384 - 389.

Reynolds, R. P., Gotte, S. W. & Ernst, C. H. (2007) Catalog of type specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 626, 1 - 49. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.626

Stuart, B. L. & Fritz, U. (2008) Historical DNA from museum type specimens clarifies diversity of Asian leaf turtles (Cyclemys). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 94, 131 - 141. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1095 - 8312.2008.00966. x

Abbreviations

USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
MCZ	Museum of Comparative Zoology
UF	Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology and Paleobotany