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
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-01-18
5403
1
65
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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
Draco viridis
var.
samaoensis
Schlegel, 1839: 92
=
Draco timoriensis
Kuhl, 1820
Holotype
(by monotypy):
RMNH
.
RENA 2903
,
one male
, Semau, coll.
S. Müller
&
H. Macklot
Terra typica
: Semau Island,
East Nusa Tenggara
,
Indonesia
Remarks
: The species epithet derives from the historic Dutch name of an island southwest off Timor (
10° 13’S
,
123° 22’E
), i. e. Samao or Semao.
Draco viridis var. samaoensis
was synonymized with
D. timoriensis
by
Musters (1983)
.
Kuhl (1820: 103)
based his description of
D. timoriensis
on
two specimens
deposited in Paris and referred to Péron as the original author.