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Astrochelys yniphora
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Description
Astrochelys yniphora (Vaillant 1885:440)
Holotype: MNHN 1885-499 (illustrated in Vaillant 1889: Pls. XII–XIV, reproduced in Bour 2007a:34 and Bour 2008a:27); now unlocatable (King & Burke 1989:81; Bour 2007a 35).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Astrochelys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Testudines
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Vaillant
- Species
- yniphora
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Astrochelys yniphora (Vaillant, 1885) sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Bour, R. (2007 a) The Plowshare Tortoise: past, present, and uncertain future: the type of Testudo yniphora Vaillant, 1885, with a selected bibliography. Emys, 14 (1), 33 - 46.
- Bour, R. (2008 a) La tortue a soc de Madagascar: passe, present … et futur incertain. Le type de Testudo yniphora Vaillant, 1885. Selection bibliographique. Manouria, 11 (41), 26 - 38.
- King, F. W. & Burke, R. L. (1989) Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Association of Systematics Collections, Washington, D. C., 216 pp.