Lophosaura ventralis var. karrooica Methuen & Hewitt, 1914

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 : 5

Lophosaura ventralis var. karrooica Methuen & Hewitt, 1914

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 4(2):103.

Current name: Bradypodion ventrale (Gray, 1845)

Holotype: PEM R8924 (formerly AMG 1789 ); Beaufort West , Western Cape Province, South Africa; Master Phillip Whaits, date unknown.

Paratype: PEM R8926 (formerly AMG 1851 ) ; Jansenville, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; collector and date unknown .

Remarks. The type description clearly refers to AMG 1789 as the ‘type’. We thus follow Tilbury (2010) and refer to AMG 1789 (now PEM R8924) as the holotype. The type article also mentions three ‘co-types’ (which should be referred to as paratypes), two from the same locality (Beaufort West) and one from Jansenville. Specific reference is made to AMG 1713 and 1732. Both specimens are unaccounted for in the PEM. Although other species, listed under these same AMG numbers, are present and were collected from Beaufort West, only the AMG 1713 series of specimens states the collector as P. Whaits. Tilbury (2010) noted that one of the paratypes is in the TMP (no. 9497). John Hewitt may have donated AMG 1713 to the Transvaal Museum, where it was re-catalogued as TMP 9497. We could only find one specimen originating from Jansenville catalogued at the same time as the holotype. We are therefore confident that PEM R8926 is the additional Jansenville specimen that Hewitt referred to. The whereabouts of AMG 1732 remains unknown. Tolley et al. (2004) treated B. karooicum as a junior synonym of the widespread B. ventrale (Gray, 1845) .