Boulengerula uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge 1928

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2015, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 1: Amphibians, Zootaxa 3936 (1) : -

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5612072

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scientific name

Boulengerula uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge 1928
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Boulengerula uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge 1928

Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 50:183.

Paratypes (2): PEM A 2947–2948 (formerly both AM 6011); Vituri, Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania; A. Loveridge, 30 October 1926.

Remarks. The type description lists a total of 40 specimens collected from the Uluguru Mountains from 20 September – 30 October 1926. It clearly states that MCZ A-12367 is designated as the holotype and the remainder as paratypes, all in the MCZ. Subsequently, paratypes were exchanged to other institutions, i.e. four to AMNH, three to FMNH ( Marx 1958), one each to SMF, UIMNH ( Smith et al. 1964), BMNH, and the Congo Museum. The MCZ online database shows that two paratypes (MCZ A-12377 and A-12378) were sent in exchange to Hewitt at the AMG, before subsequently being transferred to PEM. Both specimens have a longitudinal ventral incision.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Gymnophiona

Family

Caeciliidae

Genus

Boulengerula

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