Zonurus cordylus tasmani Power, 1930

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2019, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata), Zootaxa 4576 (1), pp. 1-45 : 9

Zonurus cordylus tasmani Power, 1930

Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 14(1):12; Plate I, Fig. 4 .

Current name: Cordylus cordylus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Syntypes (13): a) PEM R13518–22 (formerly AMG 5183 ); Dunbrody ‘ Blue cliff’, Uitenhage Division, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Rev. K. Tasman, 26 November 1925 . b) PEM R13515–7 (formerly AMG 5193 ); Dunbrody ‘ Blue cliff’, Uitenhage Division, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Rev. K. Tasman, 5 December 1925 . b) PEM R13513–4 , 13522 (formerly AMG 5917 ); Dunbrody , Sundays River; J. Hewitt, 13 September 1928 . d) PEM R13539 (formerly AMG 5166 ); Dunbrody , Sundays River; J. Hewitt, date unknown .

Remarks. The original description makes no reference to the number of specimens and or repositories to which they were deposited, although Power (1930) listed (in the comparative table) that he examined 13 specimens in total. Port Elizabeth Museum has numerous AMG series of specimens collected at the type locality, e.g. AMG 5166 (1), 5183 (6), 5193 (3), 5197 (3), 7021 (4), 7053 (10), 7087(2). Only AMG 5183 and 5193 are listed as being collected by Rev. K. Tasman on 5 December 1925 and 26 November 1925, respectively. Series AMG 5166 and 5197 were collected by J. Hewitt. The series AMG 5197 was collected on 13 September 1928, well before Power’s description. AMG 5166 is the oldest running number and most likely the specimen Hewitt (1909) referred to. Thus all the above material could have been accessible to Power and they total 13 specimens as indicated in his description. We thus assign all the above to the type series. Series AMG 7021, 7053, 7087 (no date provided) must have been collected after the description and are topotypical only. One specimen is depicted in the type description and can be identified with accuracy to PEM R13583.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Family Gekkonidae II: A—Syntype of Oedura amatolica (PEM R9439), B—Topotype of Oedura halli (PEM R8502), C—Syntype of Oedura pondolia (PEM R16069), D—Syntype of Oedura karroica wilmoti (PEM R9495), E—Syntype of Oedura tembulica PEM R9451), F—Syntype of Rhoptropus bradfieldi (PEM R15876). All scale bars are 1 cm.