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Eremias nitida subsp. garambensis Schmidt 1919

Description

Eremias nitida garambensis Schmidt, 1919

Bulletin of the American Museum (Natural History), 39(2):511.

Current name: Heliobolus nitidus garambensis (Schmidt, 1919).

Paratype: PEM R13994 (formerly AMNH 10692 and later AMG 4314); Garamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo; collector unknown, 1 May 1912.

Remarks. No evidence of transfer from AMNH to AMG. AMNH online database refers to this specimen as a paratype. Tail lost post-mortem and unaccounted for.

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2624562

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMG , PEM
Event date
1912-05-01
Family
Lacertidae
Genus
Eremias
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 10692, AMG 4314
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Schmidt
Species
garambensis
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
paratype
Verbatim event date
1912-05-01
Taxonomic concept label
Eremias nitida subsp. garambensis Schmidt, 1919 sec. Conradie, Branch & Watson, 2019

References

  • Schmidt, K. P. (1919) Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Congo expedition, 1909 - 1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chameleons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 39 (2), 385 - 624.