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Genus STAUROTYPUS Wagler 



Staurotypus Wagler, Natiirliches System der Amphibien . . ., 1830, p. 137. 

 Stauremys Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 127 [genotype, Staurotypus 

 (Stauremys) salvinii Gray]. 



Genotype. — Terrapene triporcata Wiegmann. 



Range. — Atlantic slopes of southern Mexico south to Guatemala. 



Species. — Two. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF STAUROTYPUS 



1. Suture between humerals longest; abdominals much broader than long; length 



of bridge 5}^ or more times in length of plastron salvinii (p. 27) 



Suture between pectorals longest; abdominals as broad as long; length of 

 bridge less than BYi times in length of plastron triporcatus (p. 27) 



STAUKOTYPUS TRIPORCATUS (Wiegmann) 



Terrapene triporcata Wiegmann, Isis von Oken, 1828, p. 364. 



Staurotypus triporcatus, Wagler, Natiirliches System der Amphibien . . ., 1830, 



pi. 5, figs. 44-45. 

 Staurotypus salvinii, BocotTRT (nee Gray), Mission scientifique au Mexique . . ., 



fitudes sur les reptiles, livr. 1, 1870, pp. 22-23, pi. 5, fig. 3. 

 Claudius pictus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1872, pp. 26-27 (a 



name proposed for the preceding specimen of Bocourt; type locality. Vera Paz, 



Guatemala, here restricted to Alta Verapaz; type presumably in Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia). 



Type. — Presumably in the Berlin Mus. ; Deppe collector. 



Type locality. — Rio Alvarado, Veracruz. 



Range. — Atlantic slopes from Veracruz to Guatemala and British 

 Honduras (recorded in Mexico only from the states of Veracruz and 

 Tabasco) . 



STAUROTYPUS SALVINII Gray 



Staurotypus salvinii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 127. 



Staurotypus marmoratus Fischer, Archiv fiir Naturg., 1872, p. 265, pi. 10 (tj^pe 

 locality, "Mexico," here restricted to Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; St. Petersburg 

 Mus). 



Claudius severus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1872, pp. 24-26 (type 

 locality, Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; type presumably in Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia) . 



Staurotypus biporcatiis Siebenrock, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. 10, No. 3, 1909, p. 438 

 (type locality restricted here to that of S. salvinii Gray; type here restricted, 

 as lectotype, to that of S. salvinii Gray;. 



Type. — Brit. Mus. 



Type locality. — Huamuchil, Guatemala. 



Range. — Pacific slopes from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to Guate- 

 mala (in Mexico recorded only from Oaxaca). 



Family TESTUDINIDAE Gray 



Testudinidae Gray, Ann. Philos., ser. 2, vol. 10, 1825, p. 210. 

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