Malaclemys terrapin (Schoepff 1793:64)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 37-38

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scientific name	Malaclemys terrapin (Schoepff 1793:64)
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Malaclemys terrapin (Schoepff 1793:64) View in CoL

Holotype: Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. XV).

Testudo concentrica Shaw 1802:43

Holotype: Not located; illustrated in the original description (Fig. 9, top).

Testudo ocellata Link 1807:52

Holotype: Not located; illustrated in Bechstein (1800:Pl. 4, Fig. 2).

Emys concentrica polita Gray 1830:11

Syntypes (number uncertain): only one located; OUM 8475 View Materials (Nowak-Kemp & Fritz 2010:8). Testudo palustris LeConte 1830:113

Holotype: Not located; possibly originally in the ANSP, but not listed by Malnate (1971).

Emys macrocephalus Gray 1844:26

Holotype: Not located, but apparently in the BMNH and now lost ( Ernst & Bury 1982:3).

References

Ernst, C. H. & Bury, R. B. (1982) Malaclemys, M. terrapin. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles, 299, 1 - 4.

Nowak-kemp, M. & Fritz, U. (2010) Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum. Zootaxa, 2604, 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2604.1.1

Malnate, E. V. (1971) A catalog of primary types in the herpetological collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 123 (9), 345 - 375.

Shaw, G. (1802) General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Volume III, Part I, Amphibia. G. Kearsley, London, 312 pp.