Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Goniochelys minor Agassiz, 1857
[= Sternotherus minor (Agassiz, 1857); fide, Stejneger, 1923:2, Iverson, 1977a:195.1, Zug, 1986:397.1]
Agassiz, 1857, Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S. America (Testudinata), p. 424.
Syntype: USNM 7111 (originally MCZ 1572) (alcoholic adult female, CL 94 mm), New Orleans, Louisiana, collected by N. B. Benedict, date unknown, cataloged at MCZ before 1863.
Type Locality: “Columbus, Georgia … New Orleans … Mobile”; restricted to “Columbus, Georgia” [Muscogee County] by Schmidt (1953:88).
Other Type Material: Syntypes: MCZ 1570, 1571(2), 1573 (see “Remarks”), UMMZ 63520.
Etymology: The Latin minor, smaller or inferior, refers to the taxon’s smaller size than its congener Sternotherus carinatus.
Remarks: Syntypes are not listed by catalog number in the original description. MCZ 1573 is a specimen of Sternotherus odoratus (In Litt., Jose M. Rosado to R. P. Reynolds, 6 Jun 2005).
- bibliographic citation
- Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626
