Agama lionotus var. dodomae Loveridge, 1923

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

Agama lionotus var. dodomae Loveridge, 1923

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1923:943.

Current name: Agama lionotus dodomae Loveridge, 1923

Paratype: PEM R5745 (formerly MCZ R18570) ; Mtali, Tanzania; A. Loveridge, 5 November 1921 .

Remarks. On page 944 Loveridge states ‘I now designate as types a male from Gwao’s, 10.x.21, and a female from Gwao’s, 3.x.22, which have been donated to the British Museum’. The description indicates that a total of 35 specimens from a few localities were collected and included in the description, but no mention is made to the type status of the remaining material. The online MCZ database indicates that T. Barbour donated a series of specimens labelled as paratypes to the MCZ. One of these was donated by Loveridge to Hewitt at the AMG. It is clear from the description that the material in MCZ should best be considered as non-type material.