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Eumecia anchietae Bocage 1870
Authors/Creators
- 1. BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 1021, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal
- 2. Aquário Vasco da Gama, R. Direita do Dafundo, 1495 - 718 Cruz Quebrada, Portugal
- 3. Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - 4080, USA
- 4. Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
- 5. BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal
Description
Eumecia anchietae Bocage, 1870
Specimen.
Angola: Caconda: BMNH 1893.12.27.8.
Comments.
Although not explicitly stated, Bocage (1870) seemingly described Eumecia anchietae based on a single specimen collected by Anchieta “ sur le plateau de la Huilla ”. Years later Bocage (1895 a) reported additional material, all specimens having been collected by Anchieta at Huíla, Caconda and Galanga. One specimen from Caconda presented to the British Museum in 1893, reported by Boulenger (1894 a) as Lygosoma anchietae, may be the only surviving specimen examined by Bocage. Curiously, the specimen bears an original label identifying it as Dumerilia bayonii [= Sepsina bayonii (Bocage, 1866)].
Notes
Published as part of Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, pp. 353-404 in Vertebrate Zoology 75 on pages 353-404, DOI: 10.3897/vz.75.e169790
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1893.12.27.8
- Scientific name authorship
- Bocage
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Eumecia
- Species
- anchietae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eumecia anchietae Bocage, 1870 sec. Parrinha, Calado, Marques, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2025
References
- Bocage JVB (1870) Description d'un Saurien nouveau de l'Afrique occidentale. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Serie 1, 3: 66 - 68.
- Bocage JVB (1870) Description d'un Saurien nouveau de l'Afrique occidentale. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Série 1, 3: 66–68.
- Bocage JVB (1895 a) Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Ministério da Marinha e das Colónias, Lisbonne, 203 pp., 20 plates.
- Boulenger GA (1894 a) Second report on additions to the lizard collection in the Natural-History Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 722–736.