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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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-01
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Zonurus cordylus rhodesianus
Hewitt, 1933
Occasional Papers of the Rhodesian Museum, 2: 48; Plate 9,
Fig. 3
.
Current name:
Cordylus rhodesianus
(
Hewitt, 1933
)
Syntypes
(3):
PEM
R5294–6
(formerly
AMG 6583
)
;
Monte Cassino, Macheke,
Zimbabwe
;
Rev. K. Tasman
.
Remarks.
Type
series consists of eight specimens, two in NMZB (nos. 1222–3) and the remainder in the PEM according to the
type
description. Subsequently, two have been donated to TMP (nos.1485–6) and one to MCZ (R 33448). Specimen PEM R5294 can, with confidence, be associated with Plate 9, fig 3, based on the body shape and the ventral cut exposing part of the trachea. All three remaining PEM
types
are in good condition with ventral incisions from pectoral region to above anal plate. PEM R5296 has a detached tail tied onto specimen.