Bitis cornuta albanica Hewitt, 1937b

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

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Bitis cornuta albanica Hewitt, 1937b
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Bitis cornuta albanica Hewitt, 1937b

Guide to the Vertebrate Fauna of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Part II Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes; p. 76; Plate 21.

Current name: Bitis albanica Hewitt, 1937 .

Lectotype: PEM R8279 View Materials (formerly AMG 6860 View Materials ); Klienpoort, near Comittees, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; W. Pannell, date unknown.

Paralectoypes (4): a) PEM R8278 View Materials (formerly AMG 7135 View Materials ); same details as lectotype. b ) PEM R8281 View Materials (formerly AMG 664 View Materials ); Brakkloof , Eastern Cape Province, South Africa ; G. White, 1 October 1892. c) PEM R8280 View Materials (formerly AMG 453 View Materials ); no locality ( Springvale or Brakkloos), Eastern Cape Province, South Africa . d) PEM R1183 View Materials ; The Dene (“ Die Duine), Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Remarks. Bitis cornuta albanica was informally described in “Guide to the Vertebrate Fauna of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Part II Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes ( Hewitt 1937b). This was a popular work and it is evident that Hewitt had a detailed manuscript prepared, describing this subspecies and several others, that he planned to publish elsewhere. However, a disastrous fire at the Albany Museum in 1941 stalled this, and afterwards Hewitt never published anything else relating to herpetology. Branch (1999) designated PEM R8279 as lectotype. The same specimen is illustrated in Plate XXI ( Hewitt 1937b) and Figure 6 View FIGURE 6 ( Branch 1999). Lectotype intact, but paralectotypes have ventral incisions.

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Viperidae

Genus

Bitis

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