Mesoclemmys raniceps ( Gray 1856:55 )

Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), Megataxa 7 (1), pp. 1-85 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6324171
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scientific name	Mesoclemmys raniceps ( Gray 1856:55 )
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Treatment

Mesoclemmys raniceps ( Gray 1856:55) View in CoL

Syntypes (2): BMNH 1988.80 and BMNH 1947.3.5.92 (formerly 1851.8.12.1); BMNH 1947.3.5.92 designated lectotype by Bour & Pauler (1987:8), after Boulenger (1889:219); figured in Gray (1856:Pl. XXIII); figure reproduced in Bour & Pauler (1987:21) and Ettmar (2019:11).

Batrachemys heliostemma McCord, Joseph-Ouni, & Lamar 2001:734

Holotype: USNM 541895 ( Reynolds et al. 2007:8; photographed in the original description, p. 735, Fig. 6); paratypes (3), BMNH 1904.7.26.1; RMNH 31998-99 (31998 photographed in the original description, p. 735, Fig. 6, and Cunha et al. 2019:205; both RMNH paratypes photographed in Grünewald 2009a:17–20).

Batrachemys jurutiensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro & Vogt 2021:156

Holotype: INPA-H41283 (photographed in original description, p. 159, Fig. 5; paratypes (6), INPA-H41284-86 (last two photographed in the original description, Fig. 5), H-41379, H41381, and one live specimen to be deposited on death in INPA. The original description failed to diagnose morphological or genetic differences between this taxon and M. raniceps and is therefore here synonymized.