Chioninia stangeri (Gray, 1845)

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

Chioninia stangeri (Gray, 1845) *

Specimen.

Cabo Verde: Ilheo Raso : BMNH 1946.8.18.43 [ syntype of Euprepes hopfferi Bocage, 1875 , originally BMNH 1875.4.26.9 ; Fig. 20 ] .

Comments.

Bocage wrote to Günther and O’Shaughnessy in 1875 asking for specimens of the recently described Euprepes fogoensis , leading to an exchange of specimens where Bocage sent a shipment with duplicates of species described by himself from Cabo Verde and Guinea Bissau ( NHMA /DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/76 , NHMA /DF/ZOO/200/1/191 , 194). Among these specimens was a syntype of Euprepes hopfferi , described in the same year based on several specimens collected by Hopffer at “ Ilheo Raso ” ( Bocage 1875). This specimen was cited as “ one of the types of Euprepes hopfferi ” by Boulenger (1887) under the synonymy of Mabuia stangeri and was recently examined by Miralles et al. (2010). Another syntype ( ZMB 8999) of Euprepes hopfferi exists in the ZMB ( Bauer et al. 2003).

Figures

Figure 20. Syntype of Euprepes hopfferi (BMNH 1946.8. 18.43). Photos by DP.