Oedura karroica wilmoti Hewitt, 1926b

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 : 12

Oedura karroica wilmoti Hewitt, 1926b

Annals of the Natal Museum, 5:446; Plate XXV, Figs. 1–2 .

Current name: Afroedura karroica (Hewitt, 1926)

Syntypes (25): PEM R9479–503 (formerly AMG 5069 ) ; Tarkastad, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Mr. C. Windsor Wilmot, June 1925 .

Remarks. The description states that the ‘types’ are in the Albany Museum (now PEM) and NMP and that they are represented by a series of 24 adults (p. 37). The original bottle of type specimens received from AMG has a total of 25 specimens (one is a juvenile – now PEM R9491). One lot of specimens still has original labels: ‘AM. 5069 Tarkastad C.W. Wilmot’, while the other lacks original labels. It is unclear if the latter is part of the type series or not. Two different specimens are illustrated in the plates. We matched a male (PEM R9495) and a female (PEM R9497) to those illustrated. Four specimens listed as syntypes in MCZ (R 22090–3) still bear the original label of AMG 5137, and although it states that they originated from Tarkastad and were collected by C.W. Wilmot, they must be considered only as topotypes. The PEM has an additional nine specimens (now PEM R5935–43) bearing the same number, AMG 5137, as the MCZ material, which further supports that John Hewitt preferred to exchange topotypes rather than primary types. All specimens are in good to fair condition, but PEM R9483, 9487, 9488 and 9493 have detached tails.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Family Chamaeleonidae: A—Holotype of Bradypodion atromontanum (PEM R5774), B—Holotype of Bradypodion ngomeense (PEM R16621), C—Neotype of Chamaeleo gutturalis (PEM R5990), D—Holotype of Lophosaura ventralis var. karrooica (PEM R8924), E—Syntype of Lophosaura melanocephla kentanica (PEM R16100), F—Holotype of Kinyongia mulyai (PEM R19199), G—Holotype of Nadzikambia baylissi (PEM R18055), H—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) bruessoworum (PEM R20375), I—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) nebulauctor (PEM R17278), J— Holotype of Rhampholeon tilburyi (PEM R14921), K—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) hattinghi (PEM R19194), L—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) maspictus (PEM R18072). All scale bars are 1 cm.

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.