Japalura nasuta de Jong, 1930: 115

Dondorp, Esther & Denzer, Wolfgang, 2024, Annotated catalogue of acrodont lizard types in the collection of the Naturalis Biodiverstity Center (Squamata: Agamidae, Chamaeleonidae), Zootaxa 5403 (1), pp. 65-79 : 72

Japalura nasuta de Jong, 1930: 115

= Aphaniotis ornata ( Lidth De Jeude, 1893)

Paratypes: ZMA. RENA.10989-90, Sabah, North Borneo, coll. Mohari 1912

Type locality: North Borneo [North Kalimantan according to Iskandar & Mumpini (2002)]

Remarks: Japalura nasuta de Jong, 1930 was synonymized with Aphaniotis ornata ( van Lidth de Jeude, 1893) by Ota & Hikida (2000). De Jong (1930) stated that the type series of Japalura nasuta comprised six specimens (two males and four females) deposited in the Buitenzorg Museum (now Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense) at the time of the original description. Ota & Hikida (2000) reported that a holotype “was not detected in our survey of various museum collections” and examined a paratype that is deposited in Frankfurt (SMF 78702, adult female, formerly in Mus.[eum] [zoologicum] Bog.[oriense]). Interestingly Daan & Hillenius (1966: 131) and van Tuijl (1995: 131) had already stated that there were two paratypes in the ZMA collection and that the holotype and three further paratypes were in the MZB. This was corroborated by Iskandar & Mumpuni (2002) who stated that the holotype (MZB Lace. 175a, male, North Kalimantan, coll. Mohari 1912) and three paratypes (MZB Lace. 175b, sex undetermined, same data as for the holotype) are present in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense. With one paratype too many we reexamined the Naturalis specimens in order to corroborate their type status. De Jong (1930) provided measurements for all specimens he had to hand. A comparison shows that ZMA.RENA.10989 and ZMA.RENA.10990 agree well with the data provided for the female paratypes sp. 3 and sp. 4, respectively (see Table 1 ). We therefore conclude that the Naturalis specimens represent two of the paratypes. We can further report that the paratype from the Senckenberg collection (SMF 78702) is in very good agreement with sp. 5 in de Jong (1930).