Bitis rubida Branch, 1997

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 : 34

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0246FD5D-0A11-4E2F-9060-C95B173DD4AE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932241

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D7C4D01-FFF0-FF99-BE8D-FCEDFE1BA3C1

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Bitis rubida Branch, 1997
status

 

Bitis rubida Branch, 1997

South African Journal of Zoology, 32(2):38; Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 .

Holotype: PEM R12582; Jeep track above Farm Driehoek (32°25’44”S, 19°12’30”E; 3219AC; 1380 m a.s.l.), Cedarberg [=Cederberg] Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; S.A. Botha, 3 September 1986. GoogleMaps

Paratype (5): a) PEM R4457 View Materials ; Crystal Pool (32°20’55”S, 19°08’10”E; 3219AC; 1340 m a.s.l.), Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; S.A. Botha, April 1985 GoogleMaps . b) PEM R12583; Welbedacht (32°25’45”S, 19°11’00”E; 3219AC), Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; J. van Deventer, October 1988 GoogleMaps . c) PEM R12581, on footpath from hut to Crystal Pool (32°20’55”S, 19°06’49”E; 3219AC; 1320 m a.s.l.), Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape Province, South Africa; S. A. Botha, 2 September 1986 GoogleMaps . d) PEM R5048 View Materials (formerly CDNEC 10193 ); Cederberg (village) (approx. 32°32’S, 19°16’E; 3219CB), 30 km from Algeria forestery station Western Cape Province, South Africa; M. Burger, 17 May 1990 GoogleMaps . e) PEM R8861 View Materials ; 3 km N of Veepos (32°58’10’S, 19°3’4”E; 3219CC), Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area , Western Cape Province, South Africa; J. van Deventer, 2 March 1994 .

Remarks. All the type material is in good condition, except PEM R5048 (road kill). One paratype is listed as being in SAM (SAM 46282).

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Viperidae

Genus

Bitis

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