Cordylus meculae Branch, Rödel & Marais, 2005

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 : 8

Cordylus meculae Branch, Rödel & Marais, 2005

African Journal of Herpetology, 54(2):132; Figs. 1–2 .

Holotype: PEM R16166; summit rock outcrops of Serra Mecula (12°03’11”S, 37°38’49”E; 1029 m a.s.l.), Niassa Game Reserve , Niassa Province, Mozambique; W.R. Branch, M.O. Rödel and J. Marais, 27 October 2003.

Paratypes (8): a) PEM R16163 (male allotype), R16164–5; same data as holotype. b ) PEM R16180, 16184 [wrongly listed in as R 16182 in type description], Serra Mecula (12°02’25”S, 37°38’32”E; approx. 1200 m a.s.l.); 29 October 2003 . c) PEM R16198; Serra Mecula (12°03’30”S, 37°38’22”E; approx. 1100 m a.s.l.); 31 October 2003 . d) PEM R16202–3 ; western slopes of Serra Mecula (12°02’46”S, 37°37’21”E; 643 m a.s.l.); 1 November 2003 . All collected by W.R. Branch, M.O. Rödel and J. Marais.

Remarks. All with ventral incisions except for the holotype and two paratypes (PEM R16180 & 16184).

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.

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.