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Lamprophis swazicus Schaefer 1970
Description
Lamprophis swazicus Schaefer, 1970
Annals of Cape Province Museums (Natural History), 8(14):205.
Current name: Inyoka swazicus (Schaefer, 1970).
Holotype: PEM R13502 (formerly PEM R1514 /81); Forbes Reef (26°09’S, 31°05’E), Swaziland; J. Culverwell, October 1968.
Paratype: PEM R13503 (formerly PEM R1514 /82); same collection details as holotype.
Remarks. Holotype in perfect condition with four ventral longitudinal incisions. Paratype with continuous ventral incision from behind head to cloaca, in poor condition.
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 page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2624562
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PEM
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Lamprophis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- R1514
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Schaefer
- Species
- swazicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lamprophis swazicus Schaefer, 1970 sec. Conradie, Branch & Watson, 2019
References
- Schaefer, N. (1970) A new species of house snake from Swaziland, with notes on the status of the two Genera Lamprophis and Boaedon. Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums (Natural History), 8 (14), 205 - 208.