Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925

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 : 25

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932199

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scientific name

Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925
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Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925

Records of the Albany Museum, 3:332. Fig. p. 335 (left).

Lectotype: PEM R5570 View Materials ( AMG un-numbered); Hogsback, Amatola Mountains , Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; R. Essex, September 1924.

Paralectotypes (2): PEM R5101 View Materials & R5102; same collection details as lectotype .

Remarks. Both the lectotype and one of the parolectotypes (PEM R5101) have the pectoral region dissected to enable Essex to study the pectoral girdle (see drawing in Essex 1925:333). Parolectotype PEM R5101 has a damaged (crushed) head. Paralectotype PEM R5102 is a dehydrated juvenile with mid-ventral cut extending onto the right side of the belly. After examining the AMG material, D.G. Broadley (16 March 1968) added a label to PEM R5570 noting that it is the lectotype. However, this was not formally stated in the resulting manuscript (Broadley & Greer 1969), which refers only to 3 cotypes. As PEM R5570 is the specimen illustrated in the type description (Fig. left, p. 335)–and is in good condition–Conradie et al. (2018) designate it as lectotype.

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

AMG

Albany Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Acontias

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