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<bibRefCitation id="650828A5307FFF98E9B0FEE9E6C35737" author="Leith-Adams A" box="[1199,1416,352,374]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" pagination="177 - 191" refId="ref10087" refString="Leith-Adams A. 1877. On gigantic land-tortoises and a small freshwater species from the ossiferous caverns of Malta, together with a list of their fossil fauna; and a note on chelonian remains from the rock cavities of Gibraltar. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 33: 177 - 191." type="journal article" year="1877">Leith-Adams, 1877</bibRefCitation>
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)
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</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="28DE343D307FFF98EE36FEF7E0D557D6" box="[809,926,382,404]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" rank="species">comb. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98EEB7FEF7E65957D6" authority="(Bate, 1914)" authorityName="Valenti & Vlachos & Kehlmaier & Fritz & Georgalis & Luján & Miccichè & Sineo & Delfino" authorityYear="2022" baseAuthorityName="Bate" baseAuthorityYear="1914" box="[936,1298,382,404]" class="Testudines" family="Testudinidae" genus="Solitudo" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cryptodira" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gymnesica" status="comb. nov.">
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<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98EEB7FEF7E7CF57D6" box="[936,1156,382,404]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Solitudo gymnesica</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="650828A5307FFF98E98DFEF6E64157D6" author="Bate DMA" box="[1170,1290,383,404]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" pagination="100 - 107" refId="ref8996" refString="Bate DMA. 1914. On remains of a gigantic land tortoise (Testudo gymnesicus n. sp.) from the Pleistocene of Menorca. Geological Magazine 1: 100 - 107." type="journal article" year="1914">Bate, 1914</bibRefCitation>
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)
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</taxonomicName>
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||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="28DE343D307FFF98E807FEF7E6C657D6" box="[1304,1421,382,404]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" rank="species">comb. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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,
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<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98EE36FE14E09F57F0" authority="Valenti & Vlachos & Kehlmaier & Fritz & Georgalis & Luján & Miccichè & Sineo & Delfino, 2022" authorityName="Valenti & Vlachos & Kehlmaier & Fritz & Georgalis & Luján & Miccichè & Sineo & Delfino" authorityYear="2022" box="[809,980,413,434]" class="Testudines" family="Testudinidae" genus="Solitudo" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cryptodira" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sicula" status="sp. nov.">
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||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98EE36FE14E09F57F0" box="[809,980,413,434]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Solitudo sicula</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="28DE343D307FFF98EEC5FE17E76557F1" box="[986,1070,414,435]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="01265554307FFF98EE36FE55E6785523" blockId="7.[809,1426,476,866]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">
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<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98EE36FE55E0D157B3" box="[809,922,476,497]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Remarks:</emphasis>
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||
The exact placement of
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<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98E9CFFE55E67D57B3" authorityName="Valenti & Vlachos & Kehlmaier & Fritz & Georgalis & Luján & Miccichè & Sineo & Delfino" authorityYear="2022" box="[1232,1334,476,497]" class="Testudines" family="Testudinidae" genus="Solitudo" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cryptodira" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98E9CFFE55E67D57B3" box="[1232,1334,476,497]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Solitudo</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
among
|
||
<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98EE36FE73E0F65452" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1825" box="[809,957,506,528]" class="Reptilia" family="Testudinidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Testudines" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Testudininae">Testudininae</taxonomicName>
|
||
is unclear and should be examined when new material (skull, shell)is discovered.The femur alone, in its distinctiveness, does not allow firm assessment of the phylogenetic relationship with respect to any potentially related taxon (
|
||
<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98E949FDFCE7AC54C8" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1872" box="[1110,1255,629,650]" class="Reptilia" family="Testudinidae" genus="Centrochelys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Testudines" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98E949FDFCE7AC54C8" box="[1110,1255,629,650]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Centrochelys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98E9EAFDFCE6C054C8" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1873" box="[1269,1419,629,650]" class="Reptilia" family="Testudinidae" genus="Stigmochelys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Testudines" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98E9EAFDFCE6C054C8" box="[1269,1419,629,650]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Stigmochelys</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98EE36FD1DE0C354EB" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" box="[809,904,660,681]" class="Reptilia" family="Testudinidae" genus="Testudo" kingdom="Animalia" order="Testudines" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98EE36FD1DE0C354EB" box="[809,904,660,681]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Testudo</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98EED4FD1DE72154EB" authorityName="Perez-Garcia & Vlachos" authorityYear="2014" box="[971,1130,660,681]" class="Testudines" family="Testudinidae" genus="Titanochelon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cryptodira" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98EED4FD1DE72154EB" box="[971,1130,660,681]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Titanochelon</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
). It is noteworthy that the establishment of new fossil taxa on the basis of appendicular elements is not rare among testudinids, and has been used, besides most other insular taxa mentioned already, for the recently described species
|
||
<taxonomicName id="C6992ED7307FFF98EE36FCA4E6545500" authority="Turvey et al., 2017" authorityName="Turvey" authorityYear="2017" box="[809,1311,813,835]" class="Reptilia" family="Testudinidae" genus="Chelonoidis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Testudines" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="marcanoi">
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98EE36FCA4E77A5501" box="[809,1073,813,835]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">Chelonoidis marcanoi</emphasis>
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||
<bibRefCitation id="650828A5307FFF98E925FCA7E6545500" author="Turvey ST & Almonte J & Hansford J & Scofield RP & Brocca JL & Chapman SD" box="[1082,1311,813,835]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" pagination="1 - 16" refId="ref10894" refString="Turvey ST, Almonte J, Hansford J, Scofield RP, Brocca JL, Chapman SD. 2017. A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4277: 1 - 16." type="journal article" year="2017">
|
||
Turvey
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98E986FCA7E79D5500" box="[1177,1238,813,835]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">et al.</emphasis>
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||
, 2017
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from the Quaternary of Hispaniola (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="650828A5307FFF98E949FCC5E66E5523" author="Turvey ST & Almonte J & Hansford J & Scofield RP & Brocca JL & Chapman SD" box="[1110,1317,844,865]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711" pagination="1 - 16" refId="ref10894" refString="Turvey ST, Almonte J, Hansford J, Scofield RP, Brocca JL, Chapman SD. 2017. A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4277: 1 - 16." type="journal article" year="2017">
|
||
Turvey
|
||
<emphasis id="33ED8946307FFF98E9B3FCC5E7A85523" box="[1196,1251,844,865]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1711">et al.</emphasis>
|
||
, 2017
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
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