Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925

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 : 25

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scientific name	Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925
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Records of the Albany Museum, 3:332. Fig. p. 335 (left).

Lectotype: PEM R5570 View Materials ( AMG un-numbered); Hogsback, Amatola Mountains , Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; R. Essex, September 1924.

Paralectotypes (2): PEM R5101 View Materials & R5102; same collection details as lectotype .

Remarks. Both the lectotype and one of the parolectotypes (PEM R5101) have the pectoral region dissected to enable Essex to study the pectoral girdle (see drawing in Essex 1925:333). Parolectotype PEM R5101 has a damaged (crushed) head. Paralectotype PEM R5102 is a dehydrated juvenile with mid-ventral cut extending onto the right side of the belly. After examining the AMG material, D.G. Broadley (16 March 1968) added a label to PEM R5570 noting that it is the lectotype. However, this was not formally stated in the resulting manuscript (Broadley & Greer 1969), which refers only to 3 cotypes. As PEM R5570 is the specimen illustrated in the type description (Fig. left, p. 335)–and is in good condition–Conradie et al. (2018) designate it as lectotype.