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Pseudemys nelsoni Carr 1938

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Description

Pseudemys nelsoni Carr 1938a:307

Holotype: MCZ 39888 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946:178); paratypes (9), CM 12995-96 (McCoy & Richmond 1966:249); MCZ 43847-48 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946:179); UF 741 and 1748 (only the latter located by Gilbert 1974:117); UMMZ 83129-31 (Peters 1952:55; Kluge 1984:83). Unidentified paratype photographed in the original description, p. 308, Fig. 1. MCZ on-line catalog also lists MCZ 13934-35, 13938, 19181, 19183, and 43848 as paratypes.

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 39, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Carr
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Testudines
Family
Emydidae
Genus
Pseudemys
Species
nelsoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudemys nelsoni Carr, 1938 sec. Iverson, 2022

References

  • Carr, A. F., Jr. (1938 a) Pseudemys nelsoni, a new turtle from Florida. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 8, 305 - 310.
  • Barbour, T. & Loveridge, A. (1946) First supplement to typical reptiles and amphibians. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 96 (2), 132 - 179.
  • McCoy, C. J. & Richmond, N. D. (1966) Herpetological typespecimens in Carnegie Museum. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 38, 233 - 264.
  • Gilbert, C. R. (1974) Catalogue of type specimens in the Department of Natural Sciences, Florida State Museum. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum Biological Sciences, 18 (2), 101 - 120.
  • Peters, J. A. (1952) Catalogue of type specimens in the herpetological collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 539, 1 - 55.
  • Kluge, A. (1984) Type-specimens of reptiles in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 167, 1 - 85.