Cordylosaurus trivittatus australis Hewitt, 1932

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 : 21

Cordylosaurus trivittatus australis Hewitt, 1932

Annals of the Natal Museum, 7(1):114; Plate VI, Fig. 5 .

Current name: Cordylosaurus subtessellatus (Smith, 1844)

Syntypes (2): PEM R16105–6 (formerly AMG 6111 ) ; between Garies and Kammiesberg in Namaqualand district, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; Mr. B. Peers, ‘ 15 August 1929 ’.

Remarks. The type description refers to two specimens as the types. One specimen is illustrated in the type description. We can confidently assign PEM R16105 to the illustration. Specimens in reasonable condition, except both specimens with detached tails. The type description also refers to a juvenile specimen from Kakamas (PEM R16107) and an adult from Steinkopf (PEM R15435) which resembles this form closely and is regarded as nontype material.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Family Gekkonidae III: A—Holotype of Pachydactylus capensis oculatus (PEM R11953), B—Lectotype of Pachydactylus capensis werneri (PEM R16049), C—Holotype of Pachydactylus kladaroderma PEM R11195), D—Syntype of Pachydactylus latirostris (R12884), E—Syntype of Pachydactylus maculatus albomarginatus (PEM R7625). All scale bars are 1 cm.