Pyxis planicauda (Grandidier 1867:233)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 57

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6205133
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scientific name	Pyxis planicauda (Grandidier 1867:233)
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Pyxis planicauda (Grandidier 1867:233) View in CoL

Holotype: MNHN 9373 (illustrated in Vaillant & Grandidier 1910:Pl. 4 and reproduced in Bour 2005c:24; photographed in Bour 2005c:23 and Bour 1981:140–141). NWM 23479 erroneously considered a cotype (e.g., Tiedemann & Häupl 1980:8; Tiedemann et al. 1994:13) according to Bour (2005c:22).

Testudo morondavensis Vuillemin 1972:17

Holotype: MNHN A.276 (photographed in the original description, Pl. 1, and in Bour 2005c:26).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Testudines
SubOrder	Cryptodira
Family	Testudinidae
Genus	Pyxis

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