Pelodiscus sinensis
Creators: name: Iverson, John B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Testudines
Trionychidae
Pelodiscus
Pelodiscus sinensis

description: Pelodiscus sinensis (Wiegmann 1835:189)
Syntypes (3; Fritz et al. 1994:171): ZMB 38 and 39 (extant) and ZMB 37 (lost); ZMB 38 designated lectotype by Stuckas & Fritz (2011:336–37, and photographed and sampled genetically therein). The type of Testudo rostrata (Thunberg, 1787:179) in the UPSZTY (= UUZM) 128) is not Amyda cartilaginea as usually recorded (e.g., Wermuth & Mertens, 1977:107), but rather Pelodiscus sinensis (Webb 1985:84; see also Deraniyagala 1961). The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature was petitioned (Case 2693; Webb, 1990) to suppress the earlier name and conserve Wiegmann’s name; conservation of the latter was mandated by ICZN Opinion 1659 (in 1991).
Testudo rostrata Thunberg 1787:179
Holotype: UPSZTY 128 (formerly UUZM 128 and UUZM 2); Thunberg (1828:49), Lönnberg (1896), Webb (1985, 1990), and Wallin (2001). See comment under Pelodiscus sinensis.
Testudo semimembranacea Herman 1804: 219
Holotype: Not located; possibly ZMUS.
Trionyx japonica Temminck & Schlegel 1838:139
Syntypes (number uncertain): only two locatable; RMNH 3259 and 3264 (Hoogmoed et al. 2010:22; illustrated in the original description; Pl. VII, Figs. 1–2, and Pl. V, Fig. 7); RMNH 3264 photographed in Hoogmoed et al. (2010:22).
Trionyx tuberculatus Cantor 1842:482
Syntypes (3): BMNH 1946.1.22.87-89.
Tyrse perocellata Gray 1844:48
Syntypes (3): BMNH 1946.1.22.87-89 (same as Trionyx tuberculatus).
Trionyx schlegelii Brandt 1857:111
Holotype: Not located; possibly BMNH.
Landemania irrorata Gray 1869:216
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.22.9 (formerly 1862.11.1.299).
Gymnopus simonii David 1875:214
Holotype: MNHN 835; Bour et al. (1995:88).
Psilognathus laevis Heude 1880:24
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. II).
Temnognathus mordax Heude 1880:26
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. III).
Gomphopelta officinae Heude 1880:27
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. IV).
Coelognathus novemcostatus Heude 1880: 29
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. V).
Tortisternum novemcostatum Heude 1880: 31
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. VI).
Ceramopelta latirostris Heude 1880: 33
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. VII).
Coptopelta septemcostata Heude 1880: 35
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. VIII).
Cincisternum bicinctum Heude 1880: 37
Syntypes: (number uncertain): Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. IX).
Trionyx cartilaginous newtoni Ferreira 1897: 114
Holotype: Not located; possibly MUHNAC.
Amyda schlegelii haseri Pavlov 1932:27
Holotype: TNZ unnumbered.
Amyda schlegelii licenti Pavlov 1932:28
Holotype: TNZ 14.
Amyda schlegelii laoshanica Pavlov 1933: 3
Holotype: TNZ 638.
description: Published as part of Iverson, John B., 2022, A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines), pp. 1-85 in Megataxa 7 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441