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
Chrysemys picta marginata
Agassiz 1857:439
Syntypes
(18, according to
Barbour & Loveridge (1929:241)
: MCZ 1780 (
3 specimens
), 1789– 1790 (3), 1791 (3), and 1796 (9); UIMNH 41529 (formerly MCZ 1796;
Smith
et al.
1964:35
);
NMW 26218
(
Tiedemann
et al.
1994:11
); and UMMZ 63519 (
Peters 1952:54
;
Kluge 1984:79
). However, current MCZ on-line catalogue lists 1784, 1792, 182588, 182590, 182594-96, 182599, 182601-02, and 182604-06 as
syntypes
, most of which are presumably renumbered early catalog numbers with multiple specimens. Type locality restriction by
Schmidt (1953:99)
by default makes one of the three MCZ 1780 specimens the
lectotype
(
Smith & Smith 1980:423
).