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Tetradactylus bilineatus Hewitt 1926
Description
Tetradactylus bilineatus Hewitt, 1926a
Annals of the South African Museum, 20:417
Current name: Tetradactylus tetradactylus (Daudin, 1802)
Holotype: PEM R9550; Burghersdorp [=Burgersdorp], Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Dr. R. Boom, March 1913.
Remarks: Type in poor condition with much of the tail missing (noted in type description). Branch (1990) discussed the validity of this species and symonimised it with Tetradactylus tetradactylus (Daudin, 1802).
Notes
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 21-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2624562
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PEM
- Family
- Cordylidae
- Genus
- Tetradactylus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- R9550
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hewitt
- Species
- bilineatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tetradactylus bilineatus Hewitt, 1926 sec. Conradie, Branch & Watson, 2019
References
- Hewitt, J. (1926 a) Descriptions of new and little known lizards and batrachians from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 20 (6), 413 - 431.
- Branch, W. R. (1990) The genus Tetradactylus (Sauria: Gerrhosaurinae) in the Cape Province, South Africa: new records and their taxonomic status. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa, 37, 13 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 04416651.1990.9650261