Mochlus sundevallii (Smith, 1849)

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, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

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scientific name	Mochlus sundevallii (Smith, 1849)
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Specimen.

Angola: Benguella : BMNH 1867.7.23.19 .

Comments.

Bocage (1867 a) first recorded this species as Mochlus afer and later as Lygosoma sundevallii ( Bocage 1895 a) , noting specimens collected by Anchieta in Benguela and other localities. The specimen was presented to the British Museum in 1867 as “ Euprepes ( Eumeces) afer ” ( NHMA /DF/ZOO/200/1/195 ) and was erroneously accessioned in the register as Euprepes binotatus . The following specimen in the register ( BMNH 1867.7.23.20 ) is listed as Mochlus afer and could not be located, suggesting that a cataloguing error resulted in a duplication and swapping of data, as only one specimen of Mochlus was presented by Bocage ( NHMA /DF/ZOO/200/1/195 ) and cited by Boulenger (1887).