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Pelusios castanoides Hewitt 1931
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Description
Pelusios castanoides Hewitt 1931:463
Holotype: TMP 13433 (Anon 1958:128; photographed in the original description; Pl. XXXVI, Figs. 1–2); no paratypes designated.
Pelusios castaneus kapika Bour 1979:149
Holotype: MNHN 1929.238 (Broadley 1981b:656); syntypes (5), MNHN 1899-158, 4138, 5249, 8367, and 9400.
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
- TMP
- Scientific name authorship
- Hewitt
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Pelomedusidae
- Genus
- Pelusios
- Species
- castanoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pelusios castanoides Hewitt, 1931 sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- 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.
- Broadley, D. G. (1981 b) A review of the genus Pelusios Wagler in southern Africa (Pleurodira: Pelomedusidae). Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, B. Natural Sciences, 6 (9), 633 - 686.