Bitis rubida Branch, 1997

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 : 34

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0246FD5D-0A11-4E2F-9060-C95B173DD4AE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932241

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Bitis rubida Branch, 1997
status

 

Bitis rubida Branch, 1997 View in CoL

South African Journal of Zoology, 32(2):38; Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 .

Holotype: PEM R12582; Jeep track above Farm Driehoek (32°25’44”S, 19°12’30”E; 3219AC; 1380 m a.s.l.), Cedarberg [=Cederberg] Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; S.A. Botha, 3 September 1986. GoogleMaps

Paratype (5): a) PEM R4457 View Materials ; Crystal Pool (32°20’55”S, 19°08’10”E; 3219AC; 1340 m a.s.l.), Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; S.A. Botha, April 1985 GoogleMaps . b) PEM R12583; Welbedacht (32°25’45”S, 19°11’00”E; 3219AC), Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; J. van Deventer, October 1988 GoogleMaps . c) PEM R12581, on footpath from hut to Crystal Pool (32°20’55”S, 19°06’49”E; 3219AC; 1320 m a.s.l.), Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; S. A. Botha, 2 September 1986 GoogleMaps . d) PEM R5048 View Materials (formerly CDNEC 10193 ); Cederberg (village) (approx. 32°32’S, 19°16’E; 3219CB), 30 km from Algeria forestery station Western Cape Province, South Africa; M. Burger, 17 May 1990 GoogleMaps . e) PEM R8861 View Materials ; 3 km N of Veepos (32°58’10’S, 19°3’4”E; 3219CC), Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area , Western Cape Province, South Africa; J. van Deventer, 2 March 1994 .

Remarks. All the type material is in good condition, except PEM R5048 (road kill). One paratype is listed as being in SAM (SAM 46282).

Gallery Image

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.

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Viperidae

Genus

Bitis