Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata)
Author
Conradie, Werner
Author
Branch, William R.
Author
Watson, Gillian
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-01
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1
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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.