Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa ( Günther 1877:39 )

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 49

Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa ( Günther 1877:39)

Syntypes (3): RCSM 1020 and 1021 (1021 illustrated in the original description, Pl. 7; both destroyed during World War II; Bour 1985:58) and one live specimen(latercataloguedasBMNH1888.3.20.1; labeled “type” by Boulenger (1889:168); sampled genetically by Austin et al. (2003), and identified genetically as A. g. gigantea ). RCSM 1021 considered the “type” (i.e., lectotype) by Rothschild (1915:426, 430–31), who explicitly reported that the BMNH syntype was not the “type”. UMZ R3796 designated neotype by Gerlach & Canning (1998:12).