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Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789
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Description
Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789:1041
Holotype: MZUS 121; figured in Schoepff (1792: Pl. VIII); reproduced in Bour (1987a:114, Fig. 6) and Bour (2001:20, Pl. 6); holotype photographed in Bour (1987a:114, Fig. 7).
Testudo graeca bettai Lataste 1881:396
Holotype: BMNH 1947.3.4.54 (formerly 1920.1.20.814 and 1920.1.20.915, latter being an egg)(Bour 1987a:116).
Testudo hermanni robertmertensi Wermuth 1952:162
Holotype: SMF 37468 (Mertens 1967:52); photographed in the original description (p. 161, Figs. 5–6); paratypes (14), SMF 36232 plus 13 live specimens. Of the latter 13, only SMF 36771 is known to exist (Fritz et al. 1994:169).
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 59, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1947.3
- Scientific name authorship
- Gmelin
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Genus
- Testudo
- Species
- hermanni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1789 sec. Iverson, 2022
References
- Schoepff, J. D. (1792) Historia Testudinum Iconibus Illustrata. Fasciculus I et II. Ioannis Iacobi Palm, Erlangae, pp. 1 - 32, Pls. I - X.
- Bour, R. (1987 a) L'identite des tortues terrestres europeennes: specimens-types et localites-types. Revue francaise d'Aquariologi e, 13 (4), 111 - 122.
- Bour, R. (2001) Gravures et lithographies anciennes figurant des tortues terrestres du genere Testudo. Chelonii, 3, 12 - 27.
- Mertens, R. (1967) Die herpetologische Sektion des Natur- Museums und Forschungs-Institutes Senckenberg in Frankfurt a. M. nebst einem Verzeichnis ihrer Typen. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 48, 1 - 106.
- Fritz, U., Obst, F. & Gunther, R. (1994) Kritischer Typen- Katalog der Schildkrotensammlung (Reptilia: Testudines) des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologisches Museum und Institut fur Spezielle Zoologie Berlin, 70 (1), 157 - 175. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 19940700110