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Centrochelys sulcata
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Description
Centrochelys sulcata (Miller 1779:Fig. XXVI)
Holotype: Not located (Bour 2013b; illustrated in the original description, Fig. XXVI, and reproduced in Gasperetti et al. 1993:315 and Bour 2013b:20); although ZSM 2753/0 has the notation ‘lectotype’ in the museum’s species catalog; however, this number is three juveniles of Geochelone denticulata according to C. Crumly (pers. comm. to John Iverson).
Testudo calcarata Schneider 1784:317
Holotype: Not located; illustrated in Miller (1779:
Pl. 26).
Testudo radiata senegalensis Gray 1831:11
Holotype: Not located; possibly in the MNHN.
Testudo schoepfii Rüppell in Gray 1873: 13
Holotype: Not located; possibly in the BMNH (Gray 1873:13).
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 50, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Miller
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Centrochelys
- Species
- sulcata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Centrochelys sulcata (Miller, 1779) sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Miller, J. F. (1779) Testudo sulcata, pl. 26. In: Miller, J. F. 1776 - 1784. Icones Animalium et Plantarum. (Various subjects of Natural History, Wherein are Delineated Birds, Animals and Many Curious Plants). London, 10 pp., 60 Pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 112488
- Bour, R. (2013 b) Le type de Testudo sulcata Miller, 1779. Cheloniens, 31, 14 - 27.
- Gray, J. E. (1873) Hand-List of the Specimens of Shield Reptiles in the British Museum. British Museum, London, 124 pp.