Cordylus meculae Branch, Rödel & Marais, 2005

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 : 8

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932085

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scientific name

Cordylus meculae Branch, Rödel & Marais, 2005
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Cordylus meculae Branch, Rödel & Marais, 2005

African Journal of Herpetology, 54(2):132; Figs. 1–2 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 .

Holotype: PEM R16166; summit rock outcrops of Serra Mecula (12°03’11”S, 37°38’49”E; 1029 m a.s.l.), Niassa Game Reserve , Niassa Province, Mozambique; W.R. Branch, M.O. Rödel and J. Marais, 27 October 2003. GoogleMaps

Paratypes (8): a) PEM R16163 (male allotype), R16164–5; same data as holotype. b GoogleMaps ) PEM R16180, 16184 View Materials [wrongly listed in as R 16182 in type description], Serra Mecula (12°02’25”S, 37°38’32”E; approx. 1200 m a.s.l.); 29 October 2003 GoogleMaps . c) PEM R16198; Serra Mecula (12°03’30”S, 37°38’22”E; approx. 1100 m a.s.l.); 31 October 2003 GoogleMaps . d) PEM R16202–3 View Materials ; western slopes of Serra Mecula (12°02’46”S, 37°37’21”E; 643 m a.s.l.); 1 November 2003 GoogleMaps . All collected by W.R. Branch, M.O. Rödel and J. Marais.

Remarks. All with ventral incisions except for the holotype and two paratypes (PEM R16180 & 16184).

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Cordylidae

Genus

Cordylus

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