Testudo hercules var. truncata Gray, 1831

Nowak-Kemp, Małgosia & Fritz, Uwe, 2010, Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum, Zootaxa 2604 (1), pp. 1-19 : 16

Testudo hercules var. truncata Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: p. 3

Current name: Chelonoidis carbonaria (Spix, 1824)

Holotype: OUM 8461 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 11d; shell, SCL 21 cm, bears small label with number “53”).

Remarks: This specimen, figured in Bell’s (1832–1836) Monograph of the Testudinata (part 4, plate 1), is a tortoise malformed from captive conditions, with pyramidal misshaped scutes. Despite its abnormal shape, OUM 8461 can be identified with an Amazonian morphotype of Chelonoidis carbonaria and is clearly distinct from the morphotype occurring in the southernmost part of the species’ range as figured in Vargas- Ramírez et al. (2010).