Pelusios niger (Dumeril & Bibron, 1835)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pelusios niger
status

 

Pelusios niger (Duméril & Bibron 8 5: 97)

Holotype: MNHN 8954 (illustrated in the original description, Pl. XX, Fig. 1 [though mislabeled; see Bour 2009d:33] and reproduced in Bour 2009d:34; photographed in Bour & Maran 2003:26 and Bour 2009d:36).

Sternothaerus oxyrhinus Boulenger 1897:919

Holotype: Not located; possibly BMNH, apparently lost; illustrated in the original description (Pl. LIII), and reproduced in Bour (2009d:34).

Sternothaerus heinrothi Kanberg 1924:195

Holotype: ZMB 8232 ( Fritz et al. 1994:163); paratypes (2), ZMB 30122 View Materials and another unlocated specimen ( Fritz et al. 1994:163).

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Pelomedusidae

Genus

Pelusios

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