Acontias plumbeus tasmani Hewitt, 1938

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 : 28

Acontias plumbeus tasmani Hewitt, 1938

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 26:44; Plate III; Figs 6–7 .

Current name: Acontias orientalis Hewitt, 1938 .

Lectotype: PEM R5152 (formerly AMG 5193 ); Dunbrody, Sundays River , Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Rev. K. Tasman, 5 December 1925.

Paralectotypes (4): PEM R5154–6 , 5165 (formerly AMG 5195 ) ; Dunbrody, Uitenhage district , Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Rev. K. Tasman, 7 December 1925 .

Remarks. The type description refers to ‘a series of specimens from Dunbrody, Sundays River’ collected by Rev. K. Tasman. There are six AMG series of specimens from this type locality in the PEM, i.e. AMG 7053 (21 specimens—PEM R5153, 5157–5159, 5162–5164, 5168, 5170–5180 and 5192–3), AMG 5465 (PEM R5167), AMG 5166 (PEM R5166), AMG 5195 (four specimens—PEM R5154–5156, 5165), AMG 5193 (PEM R5152), and AMG 7087 (two specimens—PEM R5160, 5169). Only the series of specimens AMG 5195 and 5193 can be assigned to the Rev. K. Tasman collection. We thus restrict the type series to these two series of specimens and the remainder must be regarded as additional topotypic material. Donald Broadley designated PEM R5152 as lectotype (handwritten label dated 16 March 1968; Broadley & Greer, 1969) and we follow that assignment. The lectotype is in good condition with a ventral flap anterior to the cloaca. We can with confidence assign the specimen in Figure 6 to PEM R5166 (collected by J. Hewitt at Dunbrody) and the specimen in Figure 7 to PEM R5186 (collected in Port Elizabeth, 22 March 1936). In the type description Hewitt refers to other collections from Uitenhage (unaccounted for in PEM), Redhouse (PEM R5183, 5190, 5191), Port Elizabeth (PEM R5181, 5182, 5184, 5186–5189), Klienpoort near Grahamstown (PEM R5770) and Resolution (PEM R5157, 5148, 5149–5151) which represent additional non-type material. Hewitt illustrated two specimens in Plate III.

Figures

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.