Scaptira knoxii pequensis Hewitt, 1935

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 : 24

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932193
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scientific name	Scaptira knoxii pequensis Hewitt, 1935
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Treatment

Records of the Albany Museum, 4:324.

Current name: Meroles knoxii (Milne-Edwards, 1829)

Syntypes (3): PEM R16102–4 View Materials (formerly AMG 5454 View Materials ) ; Luderitz-bucht [=Lüderitz], Namibia; Miss E. Saunders, ‘ 16 November 1926 ’.

Remarks. The type description refers to three specimens in the type series and makes no reference to, or illustrates, a specific specimen. All specimens have ventral incisions and PEM R16012 with a missing tail.

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Abbreviations

PEM	Port Elizabeth Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Lacertidae
Genus	Scaptira

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