Acontias plumbeus occidentalis FitzSimons, 1941

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 : 28

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Acontias plumbeus occidentalis FitzSimons, 1941
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Acontias plumbeus occidentalis FitzSimons, 1941

Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 20: 275.

Current name: Acontias occidentalis FitzSimons, 1941 .

Lectotype: PEM R5105 View Materials (formerly AMG 6064 View Materials ); Okahandja, Namibia; K. Bradfield, 23 April 1929.

Paralectotypes (2): PEM R5113–5114 View Materials (formerly AMG 5978 View Materials ) ; Honingfontein, near Nylstroom, Limpopo Province, South Africa; J. MacCallum, 18 December 1928 .

Remarks. Merterns (1955) was the first to designate AMG 6064 (now PEM R5105) as the lectotype and this was followed by Broadley & Greer (1969). All specimens have a longitudinal incision on the belly. The lectotype has a cross-incision in the anterior part of the body. The type description mentions that the other paralectotypes are in TMP and SAM.

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Acontias

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