Platysternon megacephalum Gray 1831:107

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 48-49

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scientific name	Platysternon megacephalum Gray 1831:107
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Treatment

Platysternon megacephalum Gray 1831:107 View in CoL

Holotype: BMNH 1946.9 .7.42.

Platysternon megacephalum peguense Gray 1870: 70

Syntypes (2): BMNH 1946.1.22.21-22 (formerly 1868.6.6.2-3).

Platysternon megacephalum vogeli Wermuth 1969:372

Holotype: SMNS 4573 ( Schlüter & Hallermann 1997:10; alive when described); paratype (1), SMNS 3755 ( Schlüter & Hallermann 1997:10).

Platysternon megacephalum tristernalis Schleich & Gruber 1984:68

Holotype: ZSM 317/1980/1 ( Franzen & Glaw 2007:207; not 319/1980/1 as originally cited; photographed in Vetter 2006:110); paratype (1), ZSM 318/1980 ( Franzen & Glaw 2007:207). Both types originally unnumbered, but later renumbered in the ZSM following Franzen & Glaw (2007).

Platysternon megacephalum shiui Ernst & McCord 1987:626

Holotype: USNM 266160 About USNM ; paratype (1), USNM 266161 About USNM ( Reynolds et al. 2007:30).

References

Franzen, M. & Glaw, F. (2007) Type catalog of reptiles in the Zoologische Staatssammlung Munchen. Spixiana, 30, 201 - 274.

Gray, J. E. (1870) Supplement to the Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). British Museum, London, 120 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11307

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

Schluter, A. & Hallermann, J. (1997) The type specimens in the herpetological collection of the Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde in Stuttgart. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde Serie A, 553, 1 - 15.

Vetter, H. & Van Dijk, P. P. (2006) Turtles of the World, Vol. 4: East and South Asia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 160 pp.