Pachydactylus mentalis Hewitt, 1926c

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 : 17-18

Pachydactylus mentalis Hewitt, 1926c

Annals of the South African Museum, 20:475; Plate XLIV, Fig. 1 .

Current name: Pachydactylus capensis (Smith, 1846)

Syntypes (2): PEM R8453 , R8375 (formerly AMG 5008 ) ; Longhope, on the Great Fish River , Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Miss D. Cotton, date unknown .

Remarks: Type description refers to only two specimens as ‘types’. PEM R8375 is illustrated in the plate. Both specimens are in good condition.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Family Chamaeleonidae: A—Holotype of Bradypodion atromontanum (PEM R5774), B—Holotype of Bradypodion ngomeense (PEM R16621), C—Neotype of Chamaeleo gutturalis (PEM R5990), D—Holotype of Lophosaura ventralis var. karrooica (PEM R8924), E—Syntype of Lophosaura melanocephla kentanica (PEM R16100), F—Holotype of Kinyongia mulyai (PEM R19199), G—Holotype of Nadzikambia baylissi (PEM R18055), H—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) bruessoworum (PEM R20375), I—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) nebulauctor (PEM R17278), J— Holotype of Rhampholeon tilburyi (PEM R14921), K—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) hattinghi (PEM R19194), L—Holotype of Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) maspictus (PEM R18072). All scale bars are 1 cm.