Annotated catalogue of acrodont lizard types in the collection of the Naturalis Biodiverstity Center (Squamata: Agamidae, Chamaeleonidae)
Author
Dondorp, Esther
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Author
Denzer, Wolfgang
0000-0003-2619-4555
Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology, Calle Rio Segura 26, 30600 Archena / Murcia, Spain.
lobo@herpetologica.org
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-01-18
5403
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5403.1.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5403.1.4
1175-5326
10561558
7458460D-2367-48C5-9ACE-D28457C27463
Chamaeleo pollenii
Peters, 1874: 792
=
Furcifer polleni
(
Peters, 1874
)
Paralectotypes
(status uncertain):
ZMA
.
RENA 40141
,
six specimens
of both sexes,
Mayotte
, coll.
Pollen
Type locality
: Comoreninsel
Mayotte
Remarks
: There are
six specimens
(ZMA.RENA 40141) of
Furcifer polleni
listed as
syntypes
in the catalogue. The specimens were collected by Pollen on
Mayotte
and were clearly part of his original series and as such constitute
topotypes
. The original description by
Peters (1874)
does not mention the number of specimens and subsequently
Klaver (2008)
designated ZMB 7892 as the
lectotype
and ZMB 8155 as
paralectotype
. If the Naturalis specimens were part of the original
syntype
series they have to be seen as
paralectotypes
, but as we did not find any indication that the specimens came from the museum in Berlin their type status is currently unclear.