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Phyllodactylus porphyreus subsp. namaquensis Hewitt 1935
No full textPhyllodactylus porphyreus namaquensis Hewitt, 1935 Records of the Albany Museum, 4:320; Plate XXIX, Fig. 4. Current name: Afrogecko porphyreus (Hewitt, 1935) Holotype: PEM R16091 (formerly AMG 6943); Bitterfontein, Western Cape, South Africa; Mr. V.S. Peers; 28 August 1933. Remarks: Specimen in good condition, except for a longitudinal ventral incision.Published as part of 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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262456
Oedura amatolica Hewitt 1925
No full textOedura 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.Published as part of 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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262456
Oedura tembulica Hewitt 1926
No full text<i>Oedura tembulica</i> Hewitt, 1926a <p>Annals of the South African Museum, 20(6):415</p> <p> Current name: <i>Afroedura tembulica</i> (Hewitt, 1926)</p> <p> <b>Syntypes</b> (19): PEM R9448–66 (formerly AMG 5033, 5044, 5028); Cofimvaba, Tembuland, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Mr. C.W. Wilmot, 28 May 1925.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> Hewitt did not designate a type or illustrate any specimens. The type series consists of adult (PEM R9448, 9452, 9454–56, 9491–62, 9464–9465) and juvenile (PEM R9449–50, 94553, 9457–60, 9463, 9466) material. All are in good condition, except some with detached tails. One of the original syntypes was exchanged by Hewitt (from the AMG) to MCZ (now R 22094) with the series of <i>Oedura karroica wilmoti</i> (see above) on 22 January 1926 according to MCZ’s online database.</p>Published as part of <i>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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1)</i> on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2624562">http://zenodo.org/record/2624562</a>
Basutosaura cottrelli Hewitt 1925
No full textBasutosaura cottrelli Hewitt, 1925 Records of the Albany Museum, 3:356; Fig. p. 358. Current name: Tropidosaura cottrelli (Hewitt, 1925) Holotype: PEM R16093; Nemahadi Police Camp near Mont aux Sources, Lesotho; Mr. J.A. Cottrell, January 1925. Remarks. Type description refers to a single specimen as the ‘Type’, therefore PEM R16093 is regarded as the holotype. The specimen has a posterior ventral incision exposing the intestines and the posterior half of tail missing, but showing signs of regeneration.Published as part of 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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262456
Zonurus namaquensis Methuen & Hewitt 1914
No full textZonurus namaquensis Methuen & Hewitt, 1914 Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 4(3):137. Current name: Namazonurus namaquensis (Methuen & Hewitt, 1914) Paratype: PEM R12388 (formerly AMG 1612, originally TMP 3158); at Narudas Süd, Great Karasberg Mountains, Namibia; 30 December 1912. Remarks. In the type description it is clearly stated that the type [holotype] is TMP 3163. Therefore all remaining specimens are paratypes. One paratype (TMP 3158) was sent to AMG (now in PEM). The specimen has an anterior ventral incision.Published as part of 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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262456
Oedura transvaalica Hewitt 1925
No full text<i>Oedura transvaalica</i> Hewitt, 1925 <p>Records of the Albany Museum, 3:350; Plate XVII, Fig. 1.</p> <p> Current name: <i>Afroedura transvaalica</i> (Hewitt, 1925)</p> <p> <b>Syntypes</b> (2): PEM R16072–73 (formerly AMG 5114; TMP 3491–2); N’jele River, Soutpansberg district, Limpopo Province, South Africa; Mr. G.P.F van Dam, June 1916.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> The original description lists all types (a series of nine specimens) in the Transvaal Museum, although Mashinini & Mahlangu (2013) indicate that TMP 3491–2 were sent to J. Hewitt at AMG on 3 August 1925. Both specimens are in fair condition, but PEM R16073 has a detached tail.</p>Published as part of <i>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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1)</i> on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2624562">http://zenodo.org/record/2624562</a>
Tetradactylus fitzsimonsi Hewitt 1915
No full text<i>Tetradactylus fitzsimonsi</i> Hewitt, 1915 <p>Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 5(2):101.</p> <p> <b>Syntype</b>: PEM R4439; Schoemachers Kop [=Schoenmakerkop] near Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; collector and date unknown.</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>: Although FitzSimons (1943) lists the cotypes as being in Port Elizabeth and Albany Museum, this must have been in error as the type description clearly states two specimens loaned to Hewitt from the Port Elizabeth Museum’s director F.W. FitzSimons. However, only the larger specimen (Schoenmakerskop) is currently extant in the PEM. Both Hewitt (1915, 1937b) and subsequent authors questioned the second smaller specimen from Kroonstad and subsequently disregarded it (FitzSimons 1943; Loveridge 1942; Branch 1990) and considered the taxon to be restricted to the Port Elizabeth region.The original label gives no details for collector or the date of collection. Based on consistent morphological differences, Bates (2014) treats this as a full species.</p>Published as part of <i>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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1)</i> on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2624562">http://zenodo.org/record/2624562</a>
Phyllodactylus essexi Hewitt 1925
No full text<i>Phyllodactylus essexi</i> Hewitt, 1925 <p>Records of the Albany Museum, 3:343; Plate XV, Fig. 2</p> <p> Current name: <i>Goggia essexi</i> (Hewitt, 1925)</p> <p> <b>Lectotype:</b> PEM R11157; found under large stones on a kopje at the farm Hounslow, near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; J. Hewitt, September 1924.</p> <p> <b>Paralectotype:</b> PEM R11156; same details as lectotype but, according to the original description, collected by Miss. M.L. Winslow.</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>: Two adult specimens are illustrated in the plates. Branch et al. (1995) designated the male as the lectotype and the remaining juvenile as the paralectotype.</p>Published as part of <i>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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1)</i> on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2624562">http://zenodo.org/record/2624562</a>
Acontias meleagris subsp. orientalis Hewitt 1937
No full textAcontias meleagris orientalis Hewitt, 1937b A Guide to the Vertebrate Fauna of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Part II Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes. Grahamstown, p. 41. Current name: Acontias orientalis Hewitt, 1937. Syntypes (3): a) PEM R5115 (formerly AMG 5030); Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; J. Hewitt, 16 May 1925. b) PEM R5116 (formerly AMG 8066); Nature Reserve, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; collector and date unknown. c) PEM R5117; Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; ‘ C.D.B. Liebenberg’, date unknown. Remarks. Broadley & Greer (1969) first noted that Hewitt’s Acontias melegaris orientalis was actually named in a popular publication (Hewitt 1937b, p. 41), a year earlier than the appearance of the ‘formal’ description (Hewitt 1938). It was subsequently elevated to specific status, with Acontias percivali tasmani Hewitt, 1938 as a junior subjective synonym, by Lamb et al. (2010). As with the previous taxon, the popular publication in which this species was described gives no indication of types, although it does state that it is based on material from Grahamstown. Later Hewitt (1938: 41) noted “Types.—A series of specimens from Grahamstown, now in the Albany Museum”. Donald Broadley informally designated two different specimens as lectotypes. He firstly designated PEM R5116 (AMG 8066) as lectotype on 16 March 1968, followed later by the designation of PEM R5115 (AMG 5030) as lectotype on 22 January 1969. No formal lectotype designation has been published and we refer to them all here as syntypes. The type description do illustrates PEM R5116 (Plate II, Figure 2) from “Nature Reserve, Grahamstown..Published as part of 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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262456
Oedura pondolia Hewitt 1925
No full text<i>Oedura pondolia</i> Hewitt, 1925 <p>Records of the Albany Museum, 3:346; Plate XVI, Fig. 2.</p> <p> Current name: <i>Afroedura pondolia</i> (Hewitt, 1926)</p> <p> <b>Syntypes</b> (3): PEM R16069–71 (formerly AMG 4897); Mbotyi River mouth, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Mr. W. Roberts, ‘ 22 August 1924 ’.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> The type description refers only to ‘three examples’ as being the types. Two adult males (PEM R16069 and 16070) are illustrated. All specimens are in good condition. No collecting date is provided in the description, but the label reads ‘ 22 August 1924 ’.</p>Published as part of <i>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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1)</i> on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2624562">http://zenodo.org/record/2624562</a>
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