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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Acontias plumbeus occidentalis
FitzSimons, 1941
Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 20: 275.
Current name:
Acontias occidentalis
FitzSimons, 1941
.
Lectotype
:
PEM
R5105
(formerly
AMG 6064
); Okahandja,
Namibia
;
K. Bradfield
,
23 April 1929
.
Paralectotypes
(2):
PEM
R5113–5114
(formerly
AMG 5978
)
;
Honingfontein, near Nylstroom,
Limpopo Province
,
South Africa
;
J. MacCallum
,
18 December 1928
.
Remarks
. Merterns (1955) was the first to designate AMG 6064 (now PEM R5105) as the
lectotype
and this was followed by Broadley & Greer (1969). All specimens have a longitudinal incision on the belly. The
lectotype
has a cross-incision in the anterior part of the body. The type description mentions that the other
paralectotypes
are in TMP and SAM.