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Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei

Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei

Schmidt, 1919

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Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei Schmidt, 1919

Specimens.

Angola: Duque de Bragança: BMNH 1866.6.11.5 –6 .

Comments.

Angolan material has been historically assigned to Chamaeleo gracilis and C. senegalensis (Marques et al. 2018) . Bocage sent two specimens under the name Chamaeleo gracilis on 25 May 1866 (NHMA /DF/GüntherColl/16/1/110), and although Günther stated that “ Chamaeleo gracilis is certainly not a distinct species ” in a letter dated 29 June 1866 (AHMB /CE/G79), Bocage (1866 a) referred his material from Duque de Bragança do this taxon, as did Boulenger (1887) when he cited the specimens presented to the British Museum.

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M., Ceríaco, Luis M. P. (2025): Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History. Vertebrate Zoology 75: 353-404, DOI: 10.3897/vz.75.e169790Pensoft via PlaziNo known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

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Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M., Ceríaco, Luis M. P. (2025): Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History. Vertebrate Zoology 75: 353-404, DOI: 10.3897/vz.75.e169790

Abstract

As part of a nineteenth century scientific network, José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage regularly sent “duplicate” specimens from the zoological collections of the National Museum of Lisbon to natural history museums across Europe. These duplicates gained exceptional significance following the 1978 fire that destroyed the Lisbon Museum’s zoological collections, making them the last surviving representatives of its historical holdings. Despite their importance for taxonomic and nomenclatural stability, the full extent of Bocage’s duplicate specimens remains poorly documented. Here we present a comprehensive and integrative revision of the herpetological material sent by Bocage to the British Museum of Natural History. We assess its historical, taxonomic and nomenclatural value, providing an illustrated and annotated catalogue of type specimens. A total of 92 specimens representing 57 species were sent from Lisbon between 1864 and 1896, including 30 type specimens for 27 nominal taxa. We provide evidence for the correction of the type locality associated with the only surviving syntype of Agama anchietae, as well as the recognition of previously unknown types of Chioglossa lusitanica, Hylambates angolensis, Hylambates cynnamomeus, Cystignathus bocagii, Hyperolius insignis, Hyperolius huillensis, Hemidactylus cessacii and Ophirhina anchietae.

Parrinha D, Calado F M G, Marques M P, Bauer A M, Ceríaco L M P, pensoft (2025). Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History. Vertebrate Zoology. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mu7a9c accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-18.

CC0Published 10/22/2025View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
304193332
Dataset Key
feb63d25-76a8-4bff-bba1-156efd22611e
Origin
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Backbone Key
8810727
Taxon ID
1B4FD7A9BFF8599B860CDFAB655D5977.taxon
Last Crawled
6/15/2026
Last Interpreted
6/15/2026
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