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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Series 4, Volume 65, Supplement II 
Account standardization.— Taxonomic accounts are organized by family (following 
Pyron et al. 2013), genus and species/subspecies. Each family is presented in bold capitals, 
followed by nomenclatural authority and date. Each genus is presented in bold, followed by 
nomenclatural authority and date. Species and subspecies accounts are arranged in alphabetical 
order within each genus and follow a standardized format; the currently accepted scientific name, 
followed by nomenclatural authority and data, all in bold, followed by the English common name 
for the species in bold capitals, chiefly following either Branch (1998), Uetz and Hosek (2016), 
unless no available name was found. In cases where the taxon is currently only known to occur in 
Angola, the word “Endemic,” in parentheses, follows the English common name. This is followed 
by details of the original description (regardless the original geographical origin of the type mate¬ 
rial), containing the original nomen in its original spelling (in bold), reference (author/s name, date 
and page) and data on the type specimen(s) (current museum accession number(s), collectors, and 
type locality). The type locality is spelled as in the original reference, followed by the current name 
of the locality (if different) and current province, in square brackets. Lectotype designations and 
similar data are also included in this section. A list of all the different chresonyms that have been 
applied to to the taxon in Angola (i.e., Angolan material is referred to explicitly) is presented, each 
of the chresonyms (in bold) is followed by a list of references (including author, date and page) 
where they were used. The account continues with the Global conservation status according lUCN 
Red List assessments (Version 2016-3); Global distribution; and a list of all known ocurrences in 
Angola. These latter are organized by province (in bold), with the original spelling of the locality 
in quotes, followed by the georeferenced decimal coordinates in square brackets and the reference 
to where that locality was cited (author, date, page) for the given taxa in parentheses. In cases with 
an unknown or imprecise (unplottable) locality we listed the stated place name as an “Undeter¬ 
mined Locality,” presenting the data following the above scheme, but without the georeferenced 
decimal coordinates. All the accounts are accompanied by a point locality distribution map for the 
given species, plotting all the localities listed above. Each account is closed by taxonomic and dis¬ 
tributional notes. 
Abbreviations and Symbolic Codes (Acronyms) 
Museums symbolic codes largely follow Sabaj (2016) for institutional resource collections in 
herpetology and ichthyology, except for collections not covered therein. Other frequently used 
abbreviations or acronyms are also listed. 
AHMB — Arquivo Historico do Museu Bocage, Museu Nacional de Hist6ria Natural e da Ciencia Lisboa 
[see also MUHNAC, and MBL], Portugal 
AMG — Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Provinee, South Afriea [herpetologieal speeimens 
transferred to Port Elizabeth Museum] 
AMNH — Ameriean Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA 
ANSP — Aeademy of Natural Seienees of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA [formerly 
Aeademy of Natural Seienees of Philadelphia] 
BM — British Museum (Natural History) [eurrently BMNH], London, England, UK 
BMNH — The Natural History Museum, London, England, UK [formerly British Museum of Natural 
History] 
CAS — California Aeademy of Seienees, San Franeiseo, California, USA 
CM — Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 
CNHM — Chieago Natural History Museum [eurrently FMNH] Chieago, Illinois, USA 
CZL — Centro de Zoologia de Lisboa [eurrently IICT], Lisboa, Portugal 
FMNH — Field Museum of Natural History, Chieago, Illinois, USA [see also CNHM] 
GNM — Goteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum [formerly Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet] Goteborg, Sweden 
