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 Kinosternon acutum Gray 1831:34 Holotype : BMNH 1947.3 .4.58 ( Stuart 1963:48 ). Cinosternum berendtianum Cope 1865:189 Syntypes (3; Cochran 1962:229): USNM 6517 (originally 3 specimens ), 106293 (originally one of the three USNM 6517 specimens) and 106294 (originally one of the three USNM specimens). The remaining single USNM 6517 specimen is now lost, as are the alcoholic soft parts of two of the three USNM specimens, which had been catalogued as USNM 6534 ( Reynolds et al. 2007:24 ) . Swanka maculata Gray 1869:182 (part) Syntypes (originally 8 according to original description, but only 5 remaining; Stuart 1963:49 ; Smith & Smith 1980:80 ): BMNH 1946.1.22.25 (formerly 1862.6.6.1, = K. leucostomum ); 1946.1.22.71-72 (formerly 1864.1.2.6.144-145, = K. leucostomum ); and 1946.1.22.73-74 (formerly 1862.6.6.2-3 = K. acutum ). Cinosternon effeldtii Peters 1873:603 Syntypes (3): ZMB 7868 , 9019 , and one other unlocated ( Bauer et al. 1995:51 ) . ZMB 7868 designated lectotype (illustrated in the original description, Figs. 1–3) by Fritz et al. (1994:168) .