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Stigmochelys pardalis
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Description
Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell 1828:420)
Holotype: Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXV); probably originally in the OUM, but apparently lost, since not listed in Nowak-Kemp & Fritz (2010).
Testudo biguttata Cuvier 1829:10
Holotype: MNHN 9368.
Testudo bipunctata Gray 1830:4
Holotype: MNHN 9368 (see also Testudo biguttata).
Testudo pardalis babcocki Loveridge 1935:4
Holotype: MCZ 40003 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946:202); paratypes (27 according to the original description, 13 in the MCZ and 14 in the BMNH), FMNH 73482 (Marx 1958:451); and MCZ 7990, 18156-58, 18160, 30001-02, 31984-85, and 40004-05 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946:202). The BMNH catalogue lists no 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 57, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- XXV, OUM
- Scientific name authorship
- Bell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Stigmochelys
- Species
- pardalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1828) sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Bell, T. (1828) Descriptions of three new species of land tortoises. Zoological Journal, 3 (11), 419 - 421.
- Nowak-kemp, M. & Fritz, U. (2010) Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum. Zootaxa, 2604, 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2604.1.1
- Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. (1829) Le Regne Animal Distribue d'apres son Organisation, pour Servir de Base a l'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux et d'Introduction a l'Anatomie Comparee. Nouvelle Edition, Revue et Augmentee [Edition 2]. Tome II. Deterville, Paris, 406 pp.
- 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.
- Marx, H. (1958) Catalogue of type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in Chicago Natural History Museum. Fieldiana Zoology, 36 (4), 409 - 496. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 3034