Emys speciosa Gray, 1831

Nowak-Kemp, Małgosia & Fritz, Uwe, 2010, Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum, Zootaxa 2604 (1), pp. 1-19 : 9

Emys speciosa Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: p. 10

Current name: Glyptemys insculpta (Le Conte, 1830)

Syntypes (3 specimens): OUM 8489 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 27a; shell, SCL 18.9 cm, bears small label with number “175”; also holotype of Emys speciosa var. levigata Gray, 1831 ) ; OUM 8490 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 27b; whole, stuffed male, SCL 16.6 cm, bears red oval label, label with number “368” and another label with “ Zool. Soc. ”) ; OUM 8491 ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 27c; whole, stuffed juvenile, SCL 11.3 cm) .

Remarks: According to Gray (1831a: p. 26), further syntypes are in the Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.