Chondrodactylus pulitzerae

Chondrodactylus pulitzerae (Schimdt, 1933) Material (seven specimens): Five adult specimens (MHNCUP/REP 201–205, formerly UP-MHNFCP-094992; Fig. S27), collected from Bahia dos Tigres [=Baía dos Tigres] [-16.58559º, 11.82709º, 98 m a.s.l.] Namibe Province, in 1905; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 206, formerly UP-MHNFCP-018321), collected from unknown locality, date unknown; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 207, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017359), collected from Bahia dos Tigres [= Baía dos Tigres] [-16.58559º, 11.82709º, 98 m a.s.l.] Namibe Province, in 1905. Comments: Chondrodactylus pulitzerae occurs along the Angolan coast, mainly in the south of the country (Marques et al. 2018), with Caop Velha, Bengo Province, being the known northern limit of distribution (Ceríaco et al. 2017). Heinz (2011) demonstrated that C. pulitzerae was the correct name for the Angolan lineage. Specimens from the Newton expedition were never cited before. MHNCUP/REP 201–205 specimens’ jar was labelled as “ Pachydactulus bibroni (Smith) Newton Bahia dos Tigres 1905 ” and “11 Baía dos Tigres 1905”. This matches the known distribution of the species, as C. pulitzerae has already been cited from Namibe Province (Bocage 1895; Ceríaco et al. 2016b; Laurent 1964).
Published as part of Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton's Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5028 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5453967
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