A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
Author
Iverson, John B.
text
Megataxa
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2022-01-25
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Apalone spinifera aspera
(
Agassiz 1857:402
, 405)
Syntypes
(9, according to
Webb 1960:3
): MCZ 1597, 1622 (photographed in
Stejneger 1944
:Pl. 16), 37173, 46615, 46621 and 46633; and USNM 22676 (formerly USNM Osteo 12349), 248989 (formerly USNM Osteo 1084), and 248990 (formerly USNM Osteo 1086)(
Reynolds
et al.
2007:34
).
Barbour & Loveridge (1929:225)
erroneously listed only MCZ 1597 and
1622 in
the MCZ collection.
Stejneger (1944:56–58)
reported only two “co-types”, USNM 12349 and 37173, and considered MCZ 1597 and 1622 as
paratypes
. MCZ 1597 designated
lectotype
by
Webb (1960:6)
.
Platypeltis agassizii
Baur 1888:1121
Syntypes
(2):
MCZ 37172
, according to
Stejneger (1944:72)
and Schwartz (1956:9); and USNM 92584 (formerly MCZ 1601), according to
Cochran (1961:233)
; however,
Reynolds
et al.
(2007:3)
did not consider the latter a type.
MCZ 37172
considered
holotype
by
Webb (1962
; skull photographed therein, Pl. 54).