Published January 25, 2022 | Version v1
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Myuchelys bellii

Description

Myuchelys bellii (Gray 1844:41)

Holotype: OUM 8460 (Nowak-Kemp & Fritz 2010:17); photographed in Cann (1998:209) and Cann & Sadlier (2017:221–222); sampled genetically by Kehlmaier et al. (2019); no paratypes designated.

Notes

Published as part of Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), pp. 1-85 in Megataxa 7 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chelidae
Genus
Myuchelys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Testudines
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Species
bellii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Myuchelys bellii (Gray, 1844) sec. Iverson, 2022

References

  • Nowak-kemp, M. & Fritz, U. (2010) Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum. Zootaxa, 2604, 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2604.1.1
  • Cann, J. (1998) Australian Freshwater Turtles. Beaumont Publications, Singapore, 292 pp.
  • Cann, J. & Sadlier, R. (2017) Freshwater Turtles of Australia. ECO Wear and Publishing, Rodeo, New Mexico, 448 pp.
  • Kehlmaier, C., Zhang, X., Georges, A., Campbell, P. D., Thomson, S. & Fritz, U. (2019) Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression. Scientific Reports, 9 (5841), 1 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / s 41598 - 019 - 42310 - x