Chioglossa lusitanica

Chioglossa lusitanica Bocage, 1864 *

Specimens.

Portugal: Coimbra: BMNH 1864.9.19.35 –37 [syntypes] .

Comments.

Bocage (1864 b) first described Chioglossa lusitanica in a paper that appeared on the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée in August 1864, and a “ duplicate ” description was subsequently published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London in November of the same year (Bocage 1864 a). Although Bocage (1864 a, 1864 b) provided measurements for only one specimen, he based his description on an unspecified number of specimens from Coimbra, Portugal and promptly sent duplicates of his newly described species to other Portuguese and European museums (Bauer et al. 1993; Calado 2015). Even though they were not noted as types by Boulenger (1882 a), the specimens presented to the British Museum were certainly part of Bocage’s type series. The three specimens were sent on 24 May 1864 via J. J. Monteiro, together with three manuscripts to be considered for publication in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, one of which contained “ la description, accompagnée d’une planche, du Salamandrien dont je vous adresse 3 individus, et que j’ai nommé Chioglossa lusitanica ” (NHMA /DF/GüntherColl/16/1/102; Bocage 1864 a). We here recognize these specimens as syntypes of Chioglossa lusitanica, which are in a poor state of preservation.