A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
Author
Iverson, John B.
text
Megataxa
2022
2022-01-25
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journal article
10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1
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2703-3090
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Sternotherus odoratus
(Latreille 1801:122)
Holotype
:
Not located; presumed lost; illustrated in the original description (opp. p. 112, Fig. 3).
Testudo glutinata
Daudin 1801:194
Holotype
: Not located; presumably in the MNHN according to
Smith & Smith (1980:59)
; illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXIV, Fig. 4) and in
Schoepff (1795
:Pl. XXIV, Fig. B).
Terrapene boscii
Merrem 1820:27
Holotype
: Not located.
Kinosternum guttatum
LeConte 1854:185
Holotype
: ANSP 63 (
Malnate 1971:353
).
Ozotheca tristycha
Agassiz 1857:392
, 425
Syntypes
(14): MCZ 1574 (
4 specimens
), 1576
(
2 specimens
), and 1922 (formerly USNM 70); and USNM 64–65 (now lost;
Reynolds
et al.
2007:29
), 69–72, and 7890 (possibly being USNM 64 or 65 recatalogued;
Reynolds
et al.
2007:28
).
Cochran (1961:233)
reported only USNM 69, 71, 72, and 7890 as present in that collection.
Sternotherus peltifer
Smith & Glass 1947:
22
Holotype
:
TCWC 1205
(photographed in
Tinkle
&
Webb
1955:61, Fig. 5); no
paratypes
designated.