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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Geko wahlbergii
Smith, 1849
Illustrations of the Zoology of
South Africa
, Plate 75 and associated unnumbered text.
Current name:
Homopholis wahlbergii
(Smith, 1849)
Neotype
:
PEM
R17603; Jozini Dam,
KwaZulu-Natal Province
,
South Africa
;
W.R. Branch
,
J. Marais
and
A. Bauer
,
29 June 2008
.
Remarks.
Broadley
et. al
. (2014) designated PEM R17603 as a
neotype
as Smith (1849) never designated types. This specimen has a small ventral incision and its tail is missing.