Centrochelys sulcata (Miller, 1779)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6328690
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scientific name	Centrochelys sulcata
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Treatment

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).