Apalone spinifera aspera (Agassiz, 1857)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 63

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Apalone spinifera aspera ( Agassiz 1857:402, 405)

Syntypes (9, according to Webb 1960:3): MCZ 1597, 1622 (photographed in Stejneger 1944:Pl. 16), 37173, 46615, 46621 and 46633; and USNM 22676 (formerly USNM Osteo 12349), 248989 (formerly USNM Osteo 1084), and 248990 (formerly USNM Osteo 1086)( Reynolds et al. 2007:34). Barbour & Loveridge (1929:225) erroneously listed only MCZ 1597 and 1622 in the MCZ collection. Stejneger (1944:56–58) reported only two “co-types”, USNM 12349 and 37173, and considered MCZ 1597 and 1622 as paratypes. MCZ 1597 designated lectotype by Webb (1960:6).

Platypeltis agassizii Baur 1888:1121 View in CoL

Syntypes (2): MCZ 37172, according to Stejneger (1944:72) and Schwartz (1956:9); and USNM 92584 (formerly MCZ 1601), according to Cochran (1961:233); however, Reynolds et al. (2007:3) did not consider the latter a type. MCZ 37172 considered holotype by Webb (1962; skull photographed therein, Pl. 54).

References

Agassiz, L. (1857) Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classification. Part II. North American Testudinata. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, pp. 1 - 452.

Barbour, T. & Loveridge, A. (1929) Typical reptiles and amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 69 (10), 205 - 360.

Baur, G. (1888) Notes on the American Trionychidae. The American Naturalist, 22, 1121 - 112.

Cochran, D. M. (1961) Type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the United States National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin, 220, 1 - 291. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.220

Reynolds, R. P., Gotte, S. W. & Ernst, C. H. (2007) Catalog of type specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 626, 1 - 49. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.626

Stejneger, l. (1944) Notes on the American soft-shelled turtles with special reference to Amyda agassizii. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 94 (1), 1 - 75.

Webb, R. G. (1960) Type and type locality of the Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell Turtle, Trionyx spinifer asper (Agassiz). Breviora, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 129, 1 - 8.

Webb, R. G. (1962) North American Recent soft-shelled turtles (family Trionychidae). University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 13, 429 - 611.