Testudo graeca buxtoni Boulenger 1921:251

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 58

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scientific name	Testudo graeca buxtoni Boulenger 1921:251
status

Treatment

Holotype: BMNH 1947.3.5.16 (formerly 1920.8.6.1; photographed in Perälä 2001b:13 and 2004:11– 12); originally in the Bombay Natural History Museum according to Boulenger (1921:252).

Testudo ecaudata Pallas 1814:19

Holotype: Not located; type illustrated in the original description (Pl. III; reproduced in Darevsky & Mertens 1973:101); identified as Psammobates tentorius by Darevsky & Mertens (1973:101), but as a juvenile Testudo cf. graeca by the TTWG (2017:244).

Testudo perses Perälä 2002:81 View in CoL

Holotype: FMNH 130820 (photographed in the original description, pp. 93–94, Figs. 2–4; also photographed in Vetter 2002:73 and Perälä 2004:36-37); paratypes (18), BMNH 76.11.23.2; FMNH 73484, 73488, 74504, 74950, 141621 and 141631; MCZ 53817, 53824-25, 53834 and 53836 (latter photographed in the original description, p. 94, Fig. 5); MTDK 31816; NMW 32897 and 32898:2; and USNM 154515 and 158528 ( Reynolds et al. 2007:32).

References

Boulenger, G. A. (1921) Description of a new land-tortoise from northern Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 27, 251 - 252.

Darevsky, I. S. & Mertens, R. (1973) Zwei unveroffentlichte Schildkrotentafeln von Pallas. Salamandra, 9 (3 / 4), 99 - 102.

Perala, J. (2001 b) The holotype of Testudo buxtoni Boulenger, 1920. Herpetomania, 10 (3 - 4), 12 - 15.

Perala, J. (2002) Morphological variation among Middle Eastern Testudo graeca L., 1758 (sensu lato), with a focus on taxonomy. Proceedings of the International Congress on the Genus Testudo. Chelonii, 3, 78 - 108.

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

Vetter, H. (2002) Turtles of the World, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and Western Asia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 96 pp.