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Pelusios rhodesianus Hewitt 1927
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Description
Pelusios rhodesianus Hewitt 1927:375
Holotype: PEM R14956 (formerly AMG 5432); photographed in the original description, Pl. XXI, Figs. 2–3; paratypes (4, according to Broadley 1981b:655, all originally numbered AMG 5432); includes two paratypes now numbered PEM 14957 and 14959 (latter sampled genetically by Kindler et al. 2016).
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
- Scientific name authorship
- Hewitt
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Pelomedusidae
- Genus
- Pelusios
- Species
- rhodesianus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pelusios rhodesianus Hewitt, 1927 sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- 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.
- Kindler, C., Moosig, M., Branch, W. R., Harvey, J., Kehlmaier, C., Nagys, Z. T., Prokop, H., Siorky, P. & Fritz, U. (2016) Comparative phylogeographies of six species of hinged terrapins (Pelusios spp.) reveal discordant patterns and unexpected differentiation in the P. castaneus / P. chapini complex and P. rhodesianus. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 117, 305 - 321. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / bij. 12647