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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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.