Tropidosaura essexi Hewitt, 1927

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 : 24-25

Tropidosaura essexi Hewitt, 1927

Records of the Albany Museum, 3(5):378; Plate XXII, Fig. 2 .

Syntypes (5): PEM R16094–8 (formerly AMG 5227 ) ; Summit of Mont-aux-Sources , Lesotho; Mr. R. Essex, 12 January 1926 .

Remarks. Type description refers to a series of seven specimens, but only five are present in the type bottle transferred from AMG to PEM. No holotype was designated in the original description, but two specimens are illustrated in the plates. We can confidently assign PEM R16097 to the specimen on the left and PEM R16094 to

the specimen on the right of Plate XXII, Fig. 2 . PEM R16097 is an adult with a complete but regenerated tail; PEM R16069 has a damaged head; other specimens in good condition.

Figures

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.