Atheris mabuensis Branch & Bayliss, 2009

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 : 31-32

Atheris mabuensis Branch & Bayliss, 2009

Zootaxa, 2113:44; Figs. 2–7 .

Holotype: PEM R17901; main forest camp, Mount Mabu (16°17’12”S, 36°24’14”E; 1000 m a.s.l.), Mozambique; local hunter, 20 October 2008.

Paratypes (3): a) PEM R17902; same locality as holotype; T. Timberlake, 20 October 2008 . b) PEM R17903; same locality as holotype; J. Bayliss, 20 October 2008 . c) PEM R17904; Khara Forest (lower end on Manho Forest) (15°24’39.9”S, 37°02’16.5”E; 1550 m a.s.l.), Mount Namuli, Zambezia Province, Mozambique; C. Congdon, 20 November 2008 .

Remarks. All specimens with a mid-ventral incision. One paratype (PEM R1902) is badly preserved with four ventral incisions. Menegon et al. (2014) provided genetic sequences for this species (see Table 2).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Family Cordylidae: A—Holotype of Cordylus meculae (PEM R16166), B—Syntype of Zonurus cordylus rhodesianus (PEM R5294), C—Syntype of Zonurus cordylus tasmani (PEM R13583). All scale bars are 1 cm.

FIGURE 3. Family Gekkonidae I: A—Neotype of Geko wahlbergii (PEM R17603), B—Syntype of Hemidactylus tasmani (PEM R16077), C—Syntype of Lygodactylus bradfieldi (PEM R14590), D—Syntype of Lygodactylus stevensoni (PEM R16074). All scale bars are 1 cm.

FIGURE 4. Family Gekkonidae II: A—Syntype of Oedura amatolica (PEM R9439), B—Topotype of Oedura halli (PEM R8502), C—Syntype of Oedura pondolia (PEM R16069), D—Syntype of Oedura karroica wilmoti (PEM R9495), E—Syntype of Oedura tembulica PEM R9451), F—Syntype of Rhoptropus bradfieldi (PEM R15876). All scale bars are 1 cm.

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.

FIGURE 6. Family Gekkonidae IV: A—Holotype of Pachydactylus maculatus microlepis (PEM R7731), B—Syntype of Pachydactylus mentalis (PEM R8375), C—Holotype of Pachydactylus montanus onscepensis (PEM R16050), D—Holotype of Pachydactylus oreophilus (PEM R1921), E—Syntype of Pachydactylus punctatus amoniodes (PEM R8070), F—Holotype of Pachydactylus rugosus frater (PEM R16066). All scale bars are 1 cm.

FIGURE 7. Family Gekkonidae V: A—Holotype of Phyllodactylus braacki (PEM R4361), B—Lectotype of Phyllodactylus essexi (PEM R11157), C—Holotype of Phyllodactylus hewitti (PEM R7829), D—Holotype of Phyllodactylus hexaporus (PEM R10993), E—Syntype of Phyllodactylus porphyreus cronwrigthi (PEM R16087), F—Holotype of Phyllodactylus porphyreus namaquensis (PEM R16091). All scale bars are 1 cm.