Tropidosaura montana rangeri Hewitt, 1926c

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 : 41

Tropidosaura montana rangeri Hewitt, 1926c

Annals of the South African Museum, 20:485. Plate XLIV, Fig. 3 .

The PEM is in possession of three series of uncatalogued material: AMG 5445 (seven specimens) collected by G.A. Ranger at Kei Road on 13 October 1926, AMG 5375 collected by G.A. Ranger from Gleniffer Kei Road on 23 June 1926, and AMG 5384 collected by G.A. Ranger from Gleniffer Kei Road on 8 July 1925. The description refers to a specimen collected by G.A. Ranger in November 1925, and states that it was the only specimen in the AMG at that time. The only specimen that would have been available to Hewitt was AMG 5384. We compared the dorsal head scales to those illustrated in the description and they do not match. The type is thus currently unaccounted for, but may be included in the existing series if the type drawing was in error. Presently we regard this series of specimens in the PEM as topotypes, collected shortly after the types’ stated collecting date. This forms a suitable source for a neotype should this be considered desirable.

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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.