Emys thuryi Gray, 1830
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2604.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5F1387BA-FF80-F930-FF34-FAE9ED9FF98D |
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Felipe |
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Emys thuryi Gray |
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Emys thuryi Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1831: p. 8 = Emys thurjii Gray, 1831: p. 22
Current name: Hardella thurjii (Gray, 1831)
Syntypes ( 2 specimens): OUM 8433 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 38a; shell with stuffed head, tail and all four limbs attached, SCL 35 cm) ; OUM 8434 View Materials ( Bell Collection , Catalogue of Testudinata No. 38b; whole, dried specimen, SCL 10.3 cm) .
Remarks: The dimensions of both specimens agree with those on p. 73 in Gray (1831a). Further syntypes are, according to Gray ( loc. cit.), in the Natural History Museum, London.
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