Pelusios subniger ( Bonnaterre 1789:30 )

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 14

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scientific name	Pelusios subniger ( Bonnaterre 1789:30 )
status

Treatment

Pelusios subniger ( Bonnaterre 1789:30) View in CoL

Holotype: MNHN 8366 (Bour 2004c:32 and 2008:36); illustrated in Lacepède (1788; opp. p. 175), reproduced in Bour(2004c:33),and photographed therein.

Pelusios subnigra Lacepède 1788:175

Holotype: MNHN 8366; illustrated in the original description (opp. p. 175), reproduced in Bour (2004c:33), and photographed therein.

Testudo nigricans Donndorff 1798:34

Holotype: Not located.

Pelusios subniger parietalis Bour (1983:359)

Holotype: USNM 19802 ( Reynolds et al. 2007:30); paratypes (12), BMNH 1907.10.15.3, and 1907.10.15.4; MCZ 4487 and 45511; MNHN 5300; TMP 49339; USNM 19803–19804, 10989 (formerly MNHN 25), 20954 (formerly USNM Osteo 29349)( Reynolds et al. 2007:30); ZIN 5949; and ZMB 8675 ( Fritz et al. 1994:161).

References

Abbreviations

USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
TMP	Transvaal Museum
MNHN	Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
ZIN	Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum
ZMB	Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Testudines
SubOrder	Pleurodira
Family	Pelomedusidae
Genus	Pelusios