Testudo graeca ibera

Testudo graeca ibera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Testudinoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Sauropsida
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Cladus: Diapsida
Cladus: Neodiapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Cladus: Pantestudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira
Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Familia: Testudinidae
Genus: Testudo
Subgenus: Testudo
Species: Testudo graeca
Subspecies: Testudo graeca ibera

Name

Testudo graeca ibera Pallas, 1814:18

  • Iconotype: figured in an originally unpublished drawing of Pallas, discussed by Strauch (1862) and reproduced in Darevsky & Mertens (1973:100) and Bour (1987:113), designated as lectotype by Bour (1987:112).
  • Type locality: “Caucasi meridionalibus & convallibus orae meridionalis montosae Chersonesi tauricae” (in Latin) [southern Caucasus & steep mountainous southern coast of Crimea]. Restricted to “Iberia, haud pro cul a Tiflisio” (in Latin) [Tbilisi, Georgia] by Eichwald (1831:196); to “das Gebiet des mittleren Kura-Tales im Kaukasus” (in German) [Georgia] by Mertens (1946:113); and to “Tbilissi (Tiflis), Géorgie, URSS [Tbilisi, Georgia] (in French) by Bour (1987:112)”

Synonyms

  • Testudo ibera Pallas, 1814:18 (protonym)
  • Testudo georgicana Güldenstädt in Pallas, 1814:18 (nomen nudum)
  • Testudo iberia Blyth, 1854:642 (nomen novum) - Unjustified emendetion or error for ibera, according to TTWG (2021)
  • Testudo ibera bicaudalis Venzmer, 1920:289
    • Iconotype: not located, figured (f. 1-2)
    • Type locality: “cilicischen Taurus in der kleinasiatischen Türkei” (in German) [Taurus Mts., Cilicia, Türkiye]
  • Testudo ibera racovitzai Calinescu, 1931:169
    • Iconotype: not located, figured (f. 6-7)
    • Type locality: “Turtucaia (jud. Durostor)” (in Romanian) [Romania] [now Tutrakan, Silistra, Bulgaria]
  • Testudo ibera nikolskii Chkhikvadze & Tuniyev, 1986:618
    • Holotype: GNM 13.3.008
    • Type locality: “Посёлок Небуг Туапсинского района (Краснодарский край)” (in Russian) [Nebug Settlement, Tuapse Co., Krasnodar District] [Russia]
  • Testudo graeca pontica Khosatzky, 1987:58 (nomen nudum)

References

Primary references

  • Pallas, P.S. 1814. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. Volumen tertium. Animalia monocardia seu frigidi sanguinis imperii Rosso-Asiatici. Officina Caesareae Academiae Scientiarum: Petropoli. vii + 428 pp + cxxv pp. BnF Gallica Reference page. 
  • Чхиквадзе В. М., Туниев Б. С. 1986. О систематическом положении современной сухопутной черепахи Западного Закавказья (in Russian) [On the taxonomic status of modern land tortoise of the western Transcaucasus]. Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR 124(3):617-620

Additional references

  • TTWG (Turtle Taxonomy Working Group) 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8: 1–472. DOI: 10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021 PDF. Reference page. 
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