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Three-toed Box Turtle
Terrapene triunguis (Agassiz, 1857)
Also calledDreizehen-Dosenschildkröte (deu) · Tartaruga-de-caixa-de-três-dedos (por) · Tortue-boîte à trois griffes (fra) · Tortuga de caja de tres dedos (spa) · 三趾箱龜 (zho)
First described in: Agassiz, L. (1857) Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classification. Part II. North American Testudinata. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, pp. 1 - 452.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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Syntypes (18, according to Ernst & McBreen 1991: 6, although there is some uncertainty about which are valid syntypes; J. P. Rosado, pers. comm. to John Iverson): Barbour & Loveridge (1929: 241) reported only seven syntypes (MCZ 1519 – 1525, though 1519 included eight specimens; MCZ on-line catalogue), and Cochran 1961: 230 listed only two syntypes (USNM 86871 and 86872); however, according to Reynolds et al. (2007: 12) the syntypes include MCZ 1519 (originally eight specimens; seven now recatalogued as MCZ 184569 - 75), and 1522 - 25, and USNM 86871 and 86872 (both formerly MCZ 1519, and listed as the only syntypes by Cochran 1961: 230). Possible additional syntypes include USNM 22, 7545, 7546 (originally four specimens, although two were a skull and shell from the same specimen; but only two specimens are currently catalogued with that number, and the fourth was given a new number), 131838 (formerly one of the specimens numbered 7546), and 213736 (formerly 7545) (Reynolds et al. 2007: 13). ZSM 18 / 1932 (formerly in the MCZ, and possibly one of series numbered MCZ 1519) is now lost, Franzen & Glaw 2007: 206).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8877412.