Gonyocephalus (Lophosteus) albertisii Peters & Doria, 1878: 377

Dondorp, Esther & Denzer, Wolfgang, 2024, Annotated catalogue of acrodont lizard types in the collection of the Naturalis Biodiverstity Center (Squamata: Agamidae, Chamaeleonidae), Zootaxa 5403 (1), pp. 65-79 : 71-72

Gonyocephalus (Lophosteus) albertisii Peters & Doria, 1878: 377

= Hypsilurus papuensis (Macleay, 1878)

Syntype: RMNH. RENA.48990, adult male, Yule Island , coll. Albertis

Type locality: Yule Island, Central Province, Papua New Guinea

Remarks: The Naturalis specimen came to the collection around 1880. The handwritten catalogue of incoming material (book 8, p. 13, no. 790) lists “Typische Reptilien [type specimens of reptiles] uit te Museum te Genua [from the museum in Genoa]”, among them Gonyocephalus albertisii . Further syntypes are deposited under MSNG 29122 (4 ex.), NMW 21052 and ZMB 9722, 9724-25 (see Capocaccia 1961, Denzer et al. 1997, Gemel et al. 2019). The holotype by monotypy of Tiaris [= Hypsilurus ] papuensis is deposited under AMS R 31883 (formerly Macleay Museum, Sydney MR833), Hall Sound, Papua New Guinea ( Cogger 1979).

Note: Most of the current literature (e.g. Uetz et al. 2019, Manthey & Denzer 2006) give 1877 as the year of the original description of Tiaris papuensis . While Macleay presented the paper already on 25th June 1877 during a meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales the actual print version did not appear until 1878. Consequently the correct year of description needs to be given as 1878. That Macleay’s publication preceded Peters & Doria (1878) is unambiguous as it was already cited in their original description of Gonyocephalus albertisii .