Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection
Author
Santos, Bruna S.
Author
Marques, Mariana P.
0000-0002-1712-2632
mptlmarques@gmail.com
Author
Bauer, Aaron M.
0000-0001-6839-8025
aaron.bauer@villanova.edu
Author
Ceríaco, Luis M. P.
0000-0002-3798-2664
brunascesantos@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-03
5028
1
1
80
http://zoobank.org/c678f0fe-1b62-4f34-8a66-449cf9806b50
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1
1175-5326
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Chondrodactylus pulitzerae
(Schimdt, 1933)
Material (
seven specimens
):
Five adult specimens (MHNCUP/REP 201–205, formerly UP-MHNFCP-094992;
Fig. S27
), collected from Bahia dos Tigres [=Baía dos Tigres] [-16.58559º, 11.82709º,
98 m
a.s.l.]
Namibe Province
, in 1905;
one adult
specimen (MHNCUP/REP 206, formerly UP-MHNFCP-018321), collected from unknown locality, date unknown;
one adult
specimen (MHNCUP/REP 207, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017359), collected from
Bahia dos Tigres
[=
Baía dos Tigres
] [-16.58559º, 11.82709º,
98 m
a.s.l.
]
Namibe Province
, in 1905
.
Comments:
Chondrodactylus pulitzerae
occurs along the Angolan coast, mainly in the south of the country (
Marques
et al.
2018
), with Caop Velha,
Bengo Province
, being the known northern limit of distribution (
Ceríaco
et al.
2017
).
Heinz (2011)
demonstrated that
C. pulitzerae
was the correct name for the Angolan lineage. Specimens from the Newton expedition were never cited before. MHNCUP/REP 201–205 specimens’ jar was labelled as “
Pachydactulus bibroni
(Smith) Newton Bahia dos Tigres 1905
” and “11 Baía dos Tigres 1905”. This matches the known distribution of the species, as
C. pulitzerae
has already been cited from
Namibe Province
(
Bocage 1895
;
Ceríaco
et al.
2016b
;
Laurent 1964
).