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 Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789:1041 Holotype : MZUS 121; figured in Schoepff (1792 : Pl. VIII ); reproduced in Bour (1987a:114 , Fig. 6) and Bour (2001:20 , Pl. 6); holotype photographed in Bour (1987a:114 , Fig. 7). Testudo graeca bettai Lataste 1881:396 Holotype : BMNH 1947.3 .4.54 (formerly 1920.1.20.814 and 1920.1.20.915, latter being an egg)( Bour 1987a:116 ). Testudo hermanni robertmertensi Wermuth 1952:162 Holotype : SMF 37468 ( Mertens 1967:52 ); photographed in the original description (p. 161, Figs. 5–6); paratypes (14), SMF 36232 plus 13 live specimens. Of the latter 13, only SMF 36771 is known to exist ( Fritz et al. 1994:169 ).