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Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:	(Falconer & Cautley, 1844)
Original name	:	Falconer & Cautley, 1844. Proc. Zool. Soc. London XII (133), Sep 1844: 54; (135), Oct 1844: 84.
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Synonyms

Senior objective synonym	:	†*Megalochelys* (Genus) Falconer & Cautley, 1837	Ref: Turtle Extinctions Working Group [Rhodin, A.G.J., Thomson, S., Georgalis, G., Karl, H.-V., Danilov, I.G., Takahashi, A., de la Fuente, M.S., Bourque, J.R., Delfino, M., Bour, R., Iverson, J.B., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.], 2015: 000e.34.
In	:	*Geochelone* (Genus) Fitzinger, 1835
In	:	*Testudo* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 69. [implicit]