A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
Author
Iverson, John B.
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Megataxa
2022
2022-01-25
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Psammobates tentorius verroxii
Smith 1839
:Pl. 8
Holotype
: NMSZ 1859.13.1680 (formerly
RSM
;
Herman
et al.
1990:6
); illustrated in the original description, Pl. 8).
Testudo fiski
Boulenger 1886:542
Holotype
:
BMNH 1946.1
.22.65 (formerly 1886.8.30.1).
Testudo smithi
Boulenger 1886:542
Holotype
:
BMNH 1947.3
.4.2 (formerly 1847.3.5.20).
Testudo seimundi
Boulenger 1903:216
Holotype
:
BMNH 1946.1
.22.58 (formerly 1903.4.27.1).
Testudo boettgeri
Siebenrock 1904:194
Holotype
:
SMF
3165 according to
Mertens (1922:168)
;
SMF
7793 according to
Mertens (1967:52)
; no
paratypes
designated.
Homopus bergeri
Lindholm 1906:348
Holotype
: MWNH 711 (photographed in
Branch 2007:3
).
Testudo oscarboettgeri
Lindholm 1929:
295
Holotype
:
SMF 7793
according to
Mertens
(1967:52).
Chersinella schonlandi
Hewitt 1934:303
Holotype
: apparently originally in the
AMG
(photographed in the original description,Pl.XVI, Fig. 46);
paratypes
(3), apparently originally in the
AMG
, but
MCZ 42222
-24 listed as
paratypes
by
Barbour & Loveridge (1946:91)
.
Chersinella fiski cronwrighti
Hewitt 1934:317
Holotype
: apparently originally in the
PEM
(photographed in the original description, Pl. XVI. Fig. 58); no
paratypes
designated.
Chersinella fiski orangensis
Hewitt 1934:319
Holotype
: apparently originally in the
AMG
(photographed in the original description, Pl. XVI, Fig. 59–60); no
paratypes
designated.
Chersinella fiski colesbergensis
Hewitt 1934:321
Holotype
: apparently originally in the
PEM
(photographed in the original description, Pl. XVI, Fig. 61); no
paratypes
designated.
Chersinella fiski grica
Hewitt 1934:323
Syntypes
(2): apparently originally in the
AMG
(photographed in the original description, Pl.XVI, Fig. 63, and XVII, Fig. 67).
Chersinella fiski gricoides
Hewitt 1934:326
Syntypes
(2): apparently originally in the
AMG
(photographed in the original description, Pl. XVII, Fig. 72–75)
.
Chersinella verroxii amasensis
Hewitt 1934:
333
Syntypes
(3): two apparently originally in the
AMG
and one in the
PEM
.
Psammobates depressa
FitzSimons 1938:
154
Holotype
:
TMP
17821
;
paratypes
(2),
TMP
17822
.