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Type material (as currently known)

Zoological Collections that retain type material are expected to publish lists of type material. The following is intended to meet that obligation for this collection.

Where possible, type material will be made available for study by researchers. This may be by way of making material available on loan, allowing personal examination of the specimens on the premises housing the collection or at another agreed location or through the use of suitable quality illustrations (see next section below for examples).

HOLOTYPES:

Bradypodion thamnobates Raw 1976

Specimen number: LR 825 (adult male) (view left side of specimen) (view right side of specimen)

Type locality: Nottingham Road, Natal, South Africa

Date & Collectors: 5 January 1975 by L.A. & L.R.G. Raw. (Found on hedge while basking in late afternoon sun.)

Raw, L. R. G. 1976. A survey of the dwarf chameleons of Natal, South Africa, with descriptions of three new species (Sauria : Chamaeleonidae), Durban Museum Novitates, 11 (7) : 139 -161, p.154.

Bradypodion setaroi Raw 1976

Specimen number: LR 686 (adult male) (view left side of specimen) (view right side of specimen)

Type locality: Saint Lucia Estuary, Zululand, Natal, South Africa.

Date & Collectors: 1 June 1974 by L.R.G. Raw & G. Setaro. (Collected in undergrowth in disturbed coastal dune forest.)

Raw, L. R. G. 1976. A survey of the dwarf chameleons of Natal, South Africa, with descriptions of three new species (Sauria : Chamaeleonidae), Durban Museum Novitates, 11 (7) : 139 -161, p.152.

Bradypodion nkandlae Raw & Brothers 2008

Specimen number: LR 900 (subadult male)

Type locality: Nkandla Forest, Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Date & Collectors: 23 April 1977 by F.L. Farquharson, M.N. Harris & L.R.G. Raw.

Raw, L. R. G. & D.J. Brothers. 2008. Redescription of the South African dwarf chameleon, Bradypodion nemorale Raw 1978 (Sauria : Chamaeleonidae), and description of two new species, ZooNova 1, 1:1-7.

Bradypodion caeruleogula Raw & Brothers 2008

Specimen number: LR 2777 (adult female)

Type locality: Eshowe, Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Date & Collectors: January 1992 by D.R.J., K.L., L.A., L.R.G. & P.E.V. Raw.

PARATYPES

Lycodonomorphus laevissimus natalensis Raw 1973 (Holotype (UM 27057) Umtali Museum – now in National Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo) (coll. L.R.G. Raw, Londen Stream, Hillary, Durban, Natal at altitude of 65 metres above sea-level.)

LR 424 – Londen Stream, Hillary, Durban, Natal. (16 Jun 1972, R. & ? Marais)

LR 534 – Londen Stream, Hillary, Durban, Natal. (10 Oct 1972, J. van Huyssteen & R. Marais)

LR 550, 551, 552, 553 – Baynesfield, Natal. (Oct 1972, G. Carpenter)

LR 425 – Umhlatuzana River, Cavendish, Natal. (Oct 1968, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 426 – Umhlatuzana River, Coedmore, near Bellair, Durban, Natal. (1961, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 2848 – Amanzimtoti (ex-Durban Snake Park -DSP n/n)

LR 2850 – Schroeders (ex-Durban Snake Park – DSP n/n – preserved 27 April 1972)

Raw, L. R. G. 1973. A review of the dusky-bellied water snake, Lycodonomorphus laevissimus (Gunther), with descriptions of two new subspecies, Annals of the Natal Museum, 21 (3) : 713 – 718, p. 715.

Lycodonomorphus laevissimus fitzsimonsi Raw 1973 (Holotype (TM 21261) Transvaal Museum – adult male from Lothair, Ermelo District, south-eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa.

LR 2849 – Mooi River (ex-Durban Snake Park – DSP 4/103/A)

Bradypodion thamnobates Raw 1976

LR 713-716 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (14 Dec 1974, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 742-748 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (5 Jan 1975, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 750 – Bulwer, Natal. (4 Jan 1975, L.R.G. Raw)*

LR 751 – 5 km. west Balgowan, Natal. (5 Jan 1975, L.R.G. Raw)*

LR 809 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (14 Dec 1974, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 811 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (14 Dec 1974, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 815 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (14 Dec 1974, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 817 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (14 Dec 1974, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 818-824 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (5 Jan 1974, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 826-828 – Nottingham Road, Natal. (5 Jan 1974, L.R.G. Raw)

*Erroneously listed as Nottingham Road in original description.

Raw, L. R. G. 1976. A survey of the dwarf chameleons of Natal, South Africa, with descriptions of three new species (Sauria : Chamaeleonidae), Durban Museum Novitates, 11 (7) : 139 -161.

Bradypodion setaroi Raw 1976

LR 677-679 – St. Lucia Estuary, Zululand. (Dec 1971, G. Setaro)

LR 687-688 – St. Lucia Estuary, Zululand. (1 Jun 1974, G. Setaro & L.R.G. Raw)

LR 689-693 – St. Lucia Estuary, Zululand. (31 Aug 1974, G. Setaro & L.R.G. Raw)

LR 702-703 – St. Lucia Estuary, Zululand. (1 Jun 1974, G. Setaro & L.R.G. Raw)

LR 704 – St. Lucia Estuary, Zululand. (31 Aug 1974, G. Setaro & L.R.G. Raw)

Raw, L. R. G. 1976. A survey of the dwarf chameleons of Natal, South Africa, with descriptions of three new species (Sauria : Chamaeleonidae), Durban Museum Novitates, 11 (7) : 139 -161, p. 152.

Bradypodion dracomontanum Raw 1976 (Holotype (NM 1168) in Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)

LR 841 – Giant’s Castle, Natal. (Jul 1974, collector unknown)

Bradypodion nemorale Raw 1978 (Holotype (NM 1474) in Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)

LR 915-925 – Ekombe, Qudeni Forest, Zululand (28° 39’S, 30° 54’E). (23 Apr 1977, F.L. Farquharson, M.N. Harris & L.R.G. Raw)

*LR 873-884 – Nkandla Forest Zululand (28° 44’S, 31° 8’E). (Feb 1977, F.L. Farquharson, M.N. Harris & L.R.G. Raw)

*LR 885-914 – Nkandla Forest Zululand (28° 44’S, 31° 8’E). (23 Apr 1977, F.L. Farquharson, M.N. Harris & L.R.G. Raw)

Raw, L. R. G. 1978. A further new dwarf chameleon from Natal, South Africa (Sauria : Chamaeleonidae), Durban Museum Novitates, 11 (15) : 265 – 269.

*Later assigned to a new species, Bradypodion nkandlae (Raw, L.R.G. & D.J. Brothers, 2008: Redescription of the South African dwarf chameleon,Bradypodion nemorale Raw 1978 (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), and description of two new species. ZooNova, 1: 1-7).

Hyperolius pickersgilli Raw 1982 (Holotype (NM 6657) in Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)

LR 978-981 – Mt. Edgecombe, Natal. (29 Sep 1977, F.L. Farquharson, M. Pickersgill & L.R.G. Raw)

LR 1018-1034 – Mt. Edgecombe, Natal. (10 Oct 1977, F.L. Farquharson & L.R.G. Raw)

LR 1036-1037 – Mt. Edgecombe, Natal. (5 Nov 1977, L.R.G. Raw & F.L. Farquharson)

LR 1039-1041 – Mt. Edgecombe, Natal. (5 Nov 1977, L.R.G. Raw & F.L. Farquharson)

LR 1135-1139 – Avoca, Natal. (27 Jan 1981, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 1546-1547 – Avoca, Natal.

LR 1544-1545 – “Twinstreams”, Mtunzini, Zululand.

LR 1035 – Monzi, Zululand. (Dec? 1978, G. Setaro)

Raw, L. R. G. 1982. A new species of reed frog (Amphibia : Hyperoliidae) from the coastal lowlands of Natal, South Africa, Durban Museum Novitates, 13 (9) : 117 – 126.

Afrixalus delicatus Pickersgill 1984 (Holotype (BM 1983.1150) in Natural History Museum, London.)

LR 1131 – Redwoods Farm, Compensation, Natal. (14 Aug 1979, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 1543 – Jozini, Zululand. (date not recorded, G. Setaro)

LR 1850 – Seula Estates (near Tugela Mouth), Sinkwazi, Natal. (15 Dec 1982, L.R.G. Raw)

LR 2130 – St. Lucia Estuary, Zululand. (Nov 1984, M. Pickersgill)

Pickersgill, M. 1984. Three new Afrixalus (Anura: Hyperoliidae) from southeastern Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 13: 203–220.

Afrixalus aureus Pickersgill 1984 (Holotype (BM 1983.1151) in Natural History Museum, London.)

LR 1910 – Mhlatuze Valley, 5 km. north Eshowe on road to Melmoth, Zululand. (1 Feb 1982, M. Pickersgill)

Pickersgill, M. 1984. Three new Afrixalus (Anura: Hyperoliidae) from southeastern Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 13: 203–220.

Afrixalus spinifrons intermedius Pickersgill 1996 (Holotype (MP 531) in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.)

LR 1631; 1644-1652 – Rosetta, Natal. (29 Oct 1982, M. Pickersgill)

Pickersgill, M. 1996. A new subspecies of Afrixalus (Anura, Hyperoliidae) from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with comments on its superspecies affinities. – Durban Museum Novitates 21: 49–59.

Leptotyphlops sylvicolus Broadley & Wallach, 1997

LR 782, 783, 784, 785 – Ekombe, Qudeni Forest, Zululand (12 Oct 1975 – L.R.G. Raw)

Broadley D G. Wallach V. 1997. A review of the genus Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with the description of a new forest-dwelling species. Durban Museum Novitates 22: 37-42.

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