FIGURE 4 in A quarter millenium of uses and misuses of the turtle name Testudo scabra: Identification of the type specimens of T. scabra Linnaeus 1758 (= Rhinoclemmys punctularia) and T. scripta Thunberg in Schoepff 1792 (= Trachemys scripta scripta)

FIGURE 4. Illustration from Schoepff (1792: pl. 3, figs. 4–5), showing the holotype of Testudo scripta Thunberg in Schoepff 1792 (also Testudo scabra L. sensu Thunberg in Schoepff) (presently Trachemys scripta scripta). On the plate these figures are labeled "Test. scripta Thunb." and the specimen is clearly a hatchling. The specimen itself was originally catalogued as Testudo scripta by Thunberg sometime between 1785 and 1792 and donated by him to the Uppsala University Museum of Zoology, and it is still there as a badly dried and misshaped specimen now catalogued as UUZM Types 7455 (see Fig. 7).