Geochelone platynota (Blyth 1863:83)

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 52

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1
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scientific name	Geochelone platynota (Blyth 1863:83)
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Geochelone platynota (Blyth 1863:83) View in CoL

Syntypes (3, supposedly in the BMNH and ZSI according to Smith 1931:140): ZSI 787, 788, and 789 ( Das et al. 1998:128; Kundu et al. 2018:15, where all types are photographed). Boulenger (1889:162) listed three additional specimens in the BMNH but they were not listed as types.

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Taxonomy

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

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