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Pyxis arachnoides Bell 1827
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Description
Pyxis arachnoides Bell 1827:395
Syntypes (2): OUM 1092 (illustrated in Fig. 2 in the original description; photographed in Bour 1981:139–140) and 8528 (apparently illustrated in Fig. 1 in the original description; photographed in Bour 1981:139)(Nowak-Kemp & Fritz 2010:15); OUM 1092 designated lectotype by Bour (1979:153).
Pyxis madagascariensis Lesson 1831:120
Holotype: Not located; possibly in the MNHM.
Pyxis arachnoides brygooi (Vuillemin & Domergue 1972:193)
Holotype: MNHN A.277 (photographed in the original description, p. 196, Pl. I, Fig. 2, and p. 199, Pl. IV, Fig. 4, and in Bour 1981:140–41); 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 57, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Pyxis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Testudines
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bell
- Species
- arachnoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827 sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Bour, R. (1981) Etude systematique du genre endemique malgache Pyxis Bell, 1827 (Reptilia, Chelonii). Bulletin Mensuel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon, 50, 132 - 144, 154 - 176. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / linly. 1981.10484
- 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
- Bour, R. (1979) Les tortues actuelles de Madagascar (Republique malgache): liste systematique et description de deux sous - especes nouvelles (Reptilia - Testudines). Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Scientifiques de l'Anjou n. s., 10 (1978) [1979], 141 - 154.