A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines) Author Iverson, John B. text Megataxa 2022 2022-01-25 7 1 1 85 journal article 20418 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1 bd1f1932-a0fa-4daf-af9f-cc52c932ed40 2703-3090 5964441 3BD32BFF-0402-47FB-A9EE-FE08E260793D Geochelone elegans ( Schoepff 1795:111 ) Holotype / Syntypes : Not located, although Schoepff (1795) stated that the specimen illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXV ) was from the “Museis Hagae Comitis et Harlemi” [possibly in the TSMHN in Haarlem, Netherlands ]. Note that Wallin (1977:77) showed that the Linnaean type of Testudo geometrica ( UUZM 20; Wallin 2001:126 ) is this species, rather than Psammobates geometricus (see Comment under that species). Testudo actinodes Bell 1828:419 Syntypes (at least 5): OUM 8555-56, 8558-60 (Nowak-Kemp & Fritz 2010:16 ); although none of these is the specimen illustrated by Bell (1828 : Pl. XXIII). Hence, additional syntypes may exist. Testudo megalopus Blyth 1854:640 Holotype : ZSI 792 ( Das et al. 1998:127 ; not located by Kundu et al. 2018:13 ). Peltastes stellatus maura Gray 1870:8 Holotype : Not located; presumably BMNH ( Gray 1873:8 ), apparently lost. Peltastes stellatus seba Gray 1870:8 Holotype : BMNH 1843.2 .29.6 ( Gray 1873:8 ), apparently lost.