Pachydactylus capensis oculatus Hewitt, 1927

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 : 14

Pachydactylus capensis oculatus Hewitt, 1927

Records of the Albany Museum, 3(5):394; Pl XXII, Fig. 1 .

Current name: Pachydactylus oculatus ( Hewitt, 1927)

Holotype: PEM R11953 (formerly AMG 5304 ); farm Cyrilhurts, about six miles from Tarkastad, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Mr. R. Essex, August 1925.

Remarks. The description does not mention where the specimens were deposited. A specimen agreeing in appearance with the illustrated specimen in the original description is present in the PEM. The only difference is that the original label reads ‘King’s Farm, Tarkastad’ and not ‘farm Cyrilhurts about six miles from Tarkastad’. One more juvenile specimen from the same locality (PEM R11928) is present in the PEM. Hewitt specifically states the ‘type’ (holotype) to be an adult male. No further types are listed. Hewitt considered it a form between maculatus and capensis , calling it Pachydactylus maculatus oculatus in his plate. Loveridge (1947) subsequently synonymised it with P. maculatus , but it was later elevated to a full species (Branch 1988).

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.