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Aldabrachelys gigantea subsp. hololissa
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Description
Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa (Günther 1877:39)
Syntypes (3): RCSM 1020 and 1021 (1021 illustrated in the original description, Pl. 7; both destroyed during World War II; Bour 1985:58) and one live specimen(latercataloguedasBMNH1888.3.20.1; labeled “type” by Boulenger (1889:168); sampled genetically by Austin et al. (2003), and identified genetically as A. g. gigantea). RCSM 1021 considered the “type” (i.e., lectotype) by Rothschild (1915:426, 430–31), who explicitly reported that the BMNH syntype was not the “type”. UMZ R3796 designated neotype by Gerlach & Canning (1998:12).
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 49, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Aldabrachelys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Testudines
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- hololissa
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aldabrachelys gigantea subsp. hololissa (Gunther, 1877) sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Gunther, A. C. L. G. (1877) The Gigantic Land-Tortoises (Living and Extinct) in the Collection of the British Museum. Taylor and Francis, London, 96 pp.
- Bour, R. (1985) Les tortues terrestres et d'eau douce de Madagascar et des iles voisines. Madagascar Recherches Scientifique, 18, 54 - 80.
- Boulenger, G. A. (1889) Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). Trustees of the Museum, London, 311 pp.
- Austin, J. J., Arnold, E. N. & Bour, R. (2003) Was there a second adaptive radiation of giant tortoises in the Indian Ocean? Using mitochondrial DNA to investigate speciation and biogeography of Aldabrachelys (Reptilia, Testudinidae). Molecular Ecology, 12, 1415 - 1424. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 294 X. 2003.01842. x
- Rothschild, W. (1915) On the gigantic land tortoises of the Seychelles and Aldabra-Madagascar group with some notes on certain forms of the Mascarene group. Novitates Zoologicae, 22, 418 - 442.
- Gerlach, J. & Canning, J. (1998) Taxonomy of Indian Ocean Tortoises (Dipsochelys). Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 3, 3 - 19.