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Terrapene nelsoni subsp. klauberi Bogert 1943

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Description

Terrapene nelsoni klauberi Bogert 1943:2

Holotype: AMNH 63751; paratypes (3 according to the original description), AMNH 63752- 54. However, FMNH 41269 is also listed as a paratype by Marx (1958:450).

Terrapene ornata (Agassiz 1857:445)

Syntypes (at least 7; see Reynolds et al. 2007:12–13 for a discussion of the confusion surrounding the type series): USNM 7862 (formerly 57), 7541, 131837 (formerly one of three numbered 7541), 7547, 7692, and possibly USNM 7547 and 7740 (Reynolds et al. 2007:12); BMNH 1873.8.13.3 (formerly one of three numbered USNM 7541); and MCZ 1536 (Barbour & Loveridge 1929:241); MCZ 1536 designated lectotype by Smith & Smith (1980:587). Ward (1978:1) and Smith & Smith (1980:586) also included USNM 7542 among the syntypes.

Terrapene ornata cimarronensis Cragin 1894: 37

Holotype: Not located; no paratypes designated.

Terrapene longinsulae t Hay 1908:166

Holotype: USNM 5983 (Vlachos (2018:63); illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXVI) and in Joyce et al. (2012:Figs 3–4).

Terrapene whitneyi t Hay 1916:8

Holotype: USNM 8617 (Vlachos (2018:64); illustrated in the original description (Pl. I, Figs. 4–5, Pl. II, Fig. 1).

Terrapene ornata luteola Smith & Ramsay 1952: 45

Holotype: TCU 1280; paratype (1), UIMNH 18039 (Smith et al. 1964:36).

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 pages 40-41, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH, FMNH , UIMNH , USNM
Material sample ID
AMNH 63752- 54, FMNH 41269 , UIMNH 18039 , USNM 8617
Scientific name authorship
Bogert
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Testudines
Family
Emydidae
Genus
Terrapene
Species
klauberi
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Terrapene nelsoni subsp. klauberi Bogert, 1943 sec. Iverson, 2022

References

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  • Agassiz, L. (1857) Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classification. Part II. North American Testudinata. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, pp. 1 - 452.
  • Reynolds, R. P., Gotte, S. W. & Ernst, C. H. (2007) Catalog of type specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 626, 1 - 49. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.626
  • Barbour, T. & Loveridge, A. (1929) Typical reptiles and amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 69 (10), 205 - 360.
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  • Ward, J. P. (1978) Terrapene ornata (Agassiz). Ornate Box Turtle. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles, 217, 1 - 4.
  • Vlachos, E. (2018) A review of the fossil record of North American turtles of the clade Pan-Testudinoidea. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 59, 3 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.3374 / 014.059.0101
  • Joyce, W. G., Petric ˇ evici, A., Lyson, T. R. & Czaplewski, N. J. (2012) A new box turtle from the Miocene / Pliocene boundary (Latest Hemphillian) of Oklahoma and a refined chronology of box turtle diversification. Journal of Paleontology, 86 (1), 177 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.1666 / 11 - 073.1
  • Hay, O. P. (1916) Descriptions of some Floridian fossil vertebrates, belonging mostly to the Pleistocene. Annual Report of the Florida State Geological Survey, 8, 39 - 76.
  • Smith, H. M., Langebartel, D. A. & Williams, K. L. (1964) Herpetological type-specimens in the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History. Illinois Biological Monographs, 32, 1 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 50204