Trionyx triunguis (Forskal, 1775)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 66-67

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scientific name	Trionyx triunguis
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Trionyx triunguis View in CoL (Forskål 1775:ix)

Holotype: Not located; apparently lost, according to R. G. Webb (pers. comm. to John Iverson).

Trionyx egyptiacus Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire 1809:366

Syntypes (3): MNHN 4147, A.5186, and A.5227; MNHN 4147 designated lectotype by Bour et al. (1995:77). Pls. I–II in the original description presumably are among the types.

Trionyx labiatus Bell 1835 :unnumbered

Holotype: OUM unnumbered; illustrated in the original description (Part IV, Pls. 2–4); apparently lost; not listed by Nowak-Kemp & Fritz (2010).

Trionyx mortoni Hallowell 1844:120

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

Aspidonectes aspilus Cope 1860:295

Holotype: Not located; possibly ANSP or USNM; apparently lost; not listed in Cochran (1961), Malnate (1971), or Reynolds et al. (2007).

Fordia africana Gray 1869:219 a

Syntypes (2): BMNH 1947.3 .5.42 (formerly 1862.9.2.33; skull catalogued separately as 1947.3.6.12) and 1947.3.5.70 (formerly 1862.9.2.34) .

Trionyx triunguis rudolfianus Deraniyagala 1948:30

Holotype: UPSZTY 2821 (formerly UUZM 2821 View Materials ); paratypes (6), originally in the Colombo Museum in Sri Lanka.

References

Bour, R., Dubois, A. & Webb, R. G. (1995) Types of recent trionychid turtles in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Dumerilia, 2, 73 - 92.

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

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

Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, E. (1809) Memoire sur les tortues molles, nouveau genre sous le nom de Trionyx, et sur la formation des carapaces. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 14, 1 - 20.

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.

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