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
text
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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Scaptira knoxii pequensis
Hewitt, 1935
Records of the Albany Museum, 4:324.
Current name:
Meroles knoxii
(Milne-Edwards, 1829)
Syntypes
(3):
PEM
R16102–4
(formerly
AMG 5454
)
;
Luderitz-bucht [=Lüderitz],
Namibia
;
Miss E. Saunders
, ‘
16 November 1926
’.
Remarks.
The
type
description refers to three specimens in the
type
series and makes no reference to, or illustrates, a specific specimen. All specimens have ventral incisions and PEM R16012 with a missing tail.