Pelusios castaneus ( Schweigger 1812:314 )

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 12-13

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scientific name	Pelusios castaneus ( Schweigger 1812:314 )
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Pelusios castaneus ( Schweigger 1812:314) View in CoL

Holotype: MNHN 8366, now lost ( Bour 2008e:36); MNHN 2008.0303 designated neotype by Bour (2008e:37; photographed therein).

Sternotherus leachianus Bell 1825:306

Holotype: OUM 8618 (illustrated in the original description, Pl. XV; reproduced in Bour 2008e:36), but see Nowak-Kemp & Fritz (2010:17) concerning another possible syntype.

Sternotherus derbianus Gray 1844:37

Holotype: BMNH 1947.3 .5.77 (formerly 1841.12. 25.1); illustrated in Gray (1855:Pl. XXII; reproduced in Bour 2008e:36).

Sternotherus nigricans seychellensis Siebenrock 1906:38

Syntypes (at least 2; Hallerman 1998:211): NMW 13247 ( Tiedemann & Häupl 1980:8; Tiedemann et al. 1994:12; photographed in Vetter 2002:93 and 2011:145 and Stuckas et al. 2013:3; sampled genetically by Stuckas et al. 2013 and Kindler et al. 2016) and ZMH 992–993 (photographed in Bour 2013a:37 and Bour & Gerlach 2008:1 [993 only]; listed in Bour 1983:353 as 982–983; repeated by Iverson 1992:67); NMW 13247 erroneously listed as “type” by Broadley (1981b:655) and as lectotype by Bour (1983:353) and Bour & Gerlach (2008:1), who credited Broadley with the lectotype designation. Wallerman (1998:211) recorded only a single ZMH specimen (993); whereas Grünwaldt (1980:17) listed ZMH 982 as P. sinuatus , and 983 and 993 as P. subniger .