Oedura amatolica Hewitt, 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 : 12

Oedura amatolica Hewitt, 1925

Records of the Albany Museum, 3:349; Plate XVI, Fig. 3 ; Plate XVII, Fig. 2 .

Current name: Afroedura amatolica ( Hewitt, 1925)

Syntypes (3): PEM R9439–41 (formerly AMG 4922 ) ; the summit of the Amatola Range near Hogsback, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Miss O. Siggs and Mr. R. Essex, September 1924 .

Remarks. The description refers to the types as being two adult males and one female. No holotype was designated, although a male (PEM R9439) is illustrated in plates XVI and XVII. All specimens are in good condition, but the female syntype (PEM R9440) is without the posterior two thirds of its tail.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Family Cordylidae: A—Holotype of Cordylus meculae (PEM R16166), B—Syntype of Zonurus cordylus rhodesianus (PEM R5294), C—Syntype of Zonurus cordylus tasmani (PEM R13583). All scale bars are 1 cm.

FIGURE 3. Family Gekkonidae I: A—Neotype of Geko wahlbergii (PEM R17603), B—Syntype of Hemidactylus tasmani (PEM R16077), C—Syntype of Lygodactylus bradfieldi (PEM R14590), D—Syntype of Lygodactylus stevensoni (PEM R16074). All scale bars are 1 cm.