Emys hamiltonii Gray, 1831

Nowak-Kemp, Małgosia & Fritz, Uwe, 2010, Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum, Zootaxa 2604 (1), pp. 1-19 : 11

Emys hamiltonii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: p. 9

Current name: Geoclemys hamiltonii (Gray, 1831)

Syntype (1 specimen): OUM 8477 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 34a; whole, dried specimen, SCL 7.1 cm).

Remarks: King & Burke (1989) list BMNH 1947.3.4.41 as holotype; however, this specimen should rather be regarded as syntype since it is clear that Gray (1831a: p. 72) had studied specimens from the collections of the “ British Museum [= the Natural History Museum, London] and Mr. Bell’s ”. The dimensions of OUM 8477 agree with the ones given in Gray’s (loc. cit.) description.