Phyllodactylus essexi Hewitt, 1925

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2019, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata), Zootaxa 4576 (1), pp. 1-45 : 20

Phyllodactylus essexi Hewitt, 1925

Records of the Albany Museum, 3:343; Plate XV, Fig. 2

Current name: Goggia essexi ( Hewitt, 1925)

Lectotype: PEM R11157; found under large stones on a kopje at the farm Hounslow, near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; J. Hewitt, September 1924.

Paralectotype: PEM R11156; same details as lectotype but, according to the original description, collected by Miss. M.L. Winslow.

Remarks: Two adult specimens are illustrated in the plates. Branch et al. (1995) designated the male as the lectotype and the remaining juvenile as the paralectotype.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Family Cordylidae: A—Holotype of Cordylus meculae (PEM R16166), B—Syntype of Zonurus cordylus rhodesianus (PEM R5294), C—Syntype of Zonurus cordylus tasmani (PEM R13583). All scale bars are 1 cm.