A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines) Author Iverson, John B. text Megataxa 2022 2022-01-25 7 1 1 85 journal article 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1 bd1f1932-a0fa-4daf-af9f-cc52c932ed40 2703-3090 5964441 Chelonoidis niger porteri (Rothschild 1903:119) Holotype : BMNH 1949.1 .4.38 (bones catalogued separately as BMNH 1974.2464 ; sampled genetically by Poulakakis et al. 2015 ). Testudo nigrita Duméril & Bibron 1835:80 Syntypes (2): MNHN 9313 and BMNH 1949.1.4.37; latter called type by Günther (1875:268) , recorded as such in the BMNH catalogue, and hence considered to be the lectotype ; see also Olson (2013:206) . Testudo planiceps Gray 1854:12 Holotype : BMNH 1947.3 .5.3 (formerly 1848.4.6.3). Chelonoidis niger vandenburghi (DeSola 1930:80) Holotype : CAS 8141 ( Slevin & Leviton 1956:551 ). Chelonoidis niger vicina ( Günther 1875:277 ) Holotype : BMNH 1947.3 .4.90 (formerly 1874.7.15.1); illustrated in Garman (1917 :Pl. 7).