On the Type Locality and Type Specimen of Testudo geographica LeSueur 1817

Peter V. Lindeman

doi:10.2744/CCB-0740.1

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Peter V. Lindeman¹

¹Department of Biology and Health Services, 150 Cooper Hall, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16444 USA [ ] plindeman@edinboro.edu

Abstract

Charles Alexandre LeSueur discovered the common map turtle Graptemys geographica in 1816. He named the species Testudo geographica in 1817 and described it with a drawing of a specimen he collected from a Lake Erie marsh, but further details on the collecting locality were not given. I designate the drawn specimen as the lectotype of the species and review historical documents and specimen records that allow restriction of the type locality to the peninsula of Presque Isle and adjacent Presque Isle Bay in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

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Peter V. Lindeman "On the Type Locality and Type Specimen of Testudo geographica LeSueur 1817," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 8(1), 95-98, (1 May 2009). https://doi.org/10.2744/CCB-0740.1

Received: 29 April 2008; Accepted: 1 August 2008; Published: 1 May 2009

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