Chelonoidis niger (Quoy & Gaimard 1824:174)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6328694 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F8788-FFA7-FFCC-D973-FD1DFEAF252F |
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Plazi |
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Chelonoidis niger (Quoy & Gaimard 1824:174) |
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Chelonoidis niger (Quoy & Gaimard 1824:174) View in CoL
Holotype: MNHN 9550; illustrated in the original description (Pl. 40), and reproduced in Pritchard (1996:23); photographed in Pritchard (1996:23). MNHN 9547 also listed as a “type” in the MNHN catalogue.
Testudo californiana Quoy & Gaimard 1824: 90
Holotype: MNHN 9550 (see Pritchard 1996 and Olson 2013, 2017).
Testudo elephantopus Harlan 1826:284
Syntypes (2): MCZ 11063 ( Garman 1917:292), second cotype presumably in ANSP fide Barbour & Loveridge (1929:350), but not listed by Malnate (1971).
Testudo galapagoensis Baur 1889:1044 View in CoL
Holotype: MCZ 11064 ( Barbour & Loveridge 1929:350; photographed in Olson 2017:250). Olson (2017:250) contended that MCZ 11069 and 11070 should be regarded as syntypes; MCZ 11070 sampled genetically by Poulakakis et al. (2008).
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Chelonoidis niger (Quoy & Gaimard 1824:174)
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Testudo galapagoensis
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