Testudo graeca ibera

Taxonavigation

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

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Iconotype: figured in an originally unpublished drawing of Pallas, discussed by Strauch (1862) and reproduced in Darevsky & Mertens (1973:100) and Bour (1987:113), designated as lectotype by Bour (1987:112).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)”

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)

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

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.