Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789:1041

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 59

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Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789:1041 View in CoL

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).

References

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.

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

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.

Schoepff, J. D. (1792) Historia Testudinum Iconibus Illustrata. Fasciculus I et II. Ioannis Iacobi Palm, Erlangae, pp. 1 - 32, Pls. I - X.