Pelomedusa galeata Schoepff 1792
Creators: name: Iverson, John B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Testudines
Pelomedusidae
Pelomedusa
Pelomedusa galeata

description: Pelomedusa galeata Schoepff 1792:12
Syntypes (two):ZMUL 6481 and NRM7043; ZMUL 6481 designated lectotype by Fritz et al. (2014:504, 508; photographed in Fritz et al. 2014b:509). NRM 7043 illustrated in the original description (Pl. III, Fig. 1) and reproduced in Rhodin & Carr (2009:4; though erroneously listed as the holotype).
Pentonyx capensis Duméril & Bibron 1835: 390
Syntypes (number uncertain): MNHN several;
MNHN 9506 designated lectotype by Fritz et al. (2014b:504); illustrated in the original description; photographed in Bour (2009a:29) and Fritz et al. (2014:511); sampled genetically by Fritz et al. (2014b) and Petzold et al. (2014).
Pelomedusa nigra Gray 1863:99
Syntypes (3, all sampled genetically by Fritz et al.
2014b): BMNH 1849.1.30.27; sampled genetically by Petzold et al. 2014), 1947.3.5.80 (formerly 1862.12.4.4), and 1947.3.5.81 (formerly 1862.12.4.5). BMNH 1849.1.30.27 designated lectotype by Fritz et al. (2014b:504; photographed in Fritz et al. 2014b:516).
Pelomedusa galeata orangensis Hewitt 1935:332
Holotype: KM, apparently now lost (photographed in Hewitt 1935: Pl. XXXII); paratypes (2) PEM 9404 and 9408 (Fritz et al. 2014b:505, who sampled them genetically).
Pelomedusa galeata devilliersi Hewitt 1935:337
Holotype: PEM 14962 (photographed in Fritz et al. 2014b:517; sampled genetically by Petzold et al. 2014 and Fritz et al. 2014b).
Pelomedusa gehafie Rüppell 1835: 2
Syntypes (12): MCZ 42993 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946:166; photographed in Fritz et al. 2015:278) and SMF 7947 (sampled genetically by Petzold et al. 2014), 7948, 7949, 7953, 7960, 7961, 7962, and 33054; MNHN 7870 (= lectotype of P. g. disjuncta) and 9398; and BMNH 1947.3.5.78 (formerly 1843.7.22.2; photographed in Fritz et al. 2014b:511). Only SMF 3197 recorded in Mertens (1922:169). SMF 7947 designated lectotype by Mertens (1937:140; Mertens 1967:52);photographed in Fritz et al. 2014b:512). SMF 7947-48 and 33054 sampled genetically by Fritz et al. (2014b).
Pelomedusa galeata var. disjuncta Vaillant & Grandidier 1910:56
Syntypes (3): MNHN 7870, 9398, 1902.346; MNHN 7870designatedlectotypebyFritz etal. (2014b:504; illustrated in the original description).
Pelomedusa kobe Petzold, Vargas-Ramírez, Kehlmaier, Vamberger, Branch, Du Preez, Hofmeyr, Meyers, Schleicher, Široký, & Fritz 2014b:535
Holotype: ZSM 334/1978 (photographed in Petzold et al. 2014:53, and Vetter 2018:144; sampled genetically by Petzold et al. 2014); paratypes (11): ZMB 11741 and 11742, ZSM 285/1937:1- 3, 334/1978:2, and 96/1960:1-5 (photograph of 96/1960: 3 in Fritz et al. 2015:279). All paratypes but ZSM 285/1937:3 sampled genetically by Petzold et al. 2014).
Pelomedusa neumanni Petzold, Vargas-Ramírez, Kehlmaier, Vamberger, Branch, Du Preez, Hofmeyr, Meyers, Schleicher, Široký, & Fritz 2014b:537
Holotype: NMP6 V 74974 (photographed in Petzold et al. 2014:538); paratypes (3): NMW 24452; ZFMK 81951; and ZMB 28356. NMW and ZMB paratypes sampled genetically by Petzold et al. (2014).
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 11-12, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5964441