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Pelusios niger
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Description
Pelusios niger (Duméril & Bibron 1835:397)
Holotype: MNHN 8954 (illustrated in the original description, Pl. XX, Fig. 1 [though mislabeled; see Bour 2009d:33] and reproduced in Bour 2009d:34; photographed in Bour & Maran 2003:26 and Bour 2009d:36).
Sternothaerus oxyrhinus Boulenger 1897:919
Holotype: Not located; possibly BMNH, apparently lost; illustrated in the original description (Pl. LIII), and reproduced in Bour (2009d:34).
Sternothaerus heinrothi Kanberg 1924:195
Holotype: ZMB 8232 (Fritz et al. 1994:163); paratypes (2), ZMB 30122 and another unlocated specimen (Fritz et al. 1994:163).
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 13, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH, LIII
- Scientific name authorship
- Dumeril & Bibron
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Pelomedusidae
- Genus
- Pelusios
- Species
- niger
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pelusios niger (Dumeril, 1835) sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Dumeril, A. M. C. & Bibron, G. (1835) Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Tome Second. Roret, Paris, 680 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 45973
- Bour, R. (2009 d) Holotype and type locality of Sternotherus niger Dumeril & Bibron, 1835. Emys, 16 (4), 33 - 37.
- Bour, R. & Maran, J. (2003) Une nouvelle espece de Pelusios de Cote d'Ivoire (Reptilia, Chelonii, Pelomedusidae). Manouria, 6 (21), 24 - 43.
- Fritz, U., Obst, F. & Gunther, R. (1994) Kritischer Typen- Katalog der Schildkrotensammlung (Reptilia: Testudines) des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologisches Museum und Institut fur Spezielle Zoologie Berlin, 70 (1), 157 - 175. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 19940700110