Lophosaura melanocephla kentanica Hewitt, 1935

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 : 5

Lophosaura melanocephla kentanica Hewitt, 1935

Records of the Albany Museum, 4:303; Plate XXVII, Fig. 3 .

Current name: Bradypodion kentanicum ( Hewitt, 1935)

Syntypes (2): PEM R16100–1 (formerly AMG 4538 ) ; Kentani, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Miss O. Abernethy, 7 March 1922 .

Remarks. Collected by Miss O. Abernethy and presented to AMG by Miss Alice Pegler ( Tilbury 2010). The description refers to two immature males as the types. Both specimens in very poor condition and dehydrated (presumably dried out at some stage). A dorsal photo of the head of one of the type specimens is illustrated on Plate XXVII figure 3. PEM R16100 is most similar to the figure.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Family Gekkonidae I: A—Neotype of Geko wahlbergii (PEM R17603), B—Syntype of Hemidactylus tasmani (PEM R16077), C—Syntype of Lygodactylus bradfieldi (PEM R14590), D—Syntype of Lygodactylus stevensoni (PEM R16074). All scale bars are 1 cm.