| Sumario: | The Herpetology Collection of the Instituto de Biología Animal of Mendoza
(IBA-FCA UNCuyo) is one of the most important of Argentina, for the type material
deposited there and because includes a large number of specimens from central-western
Argentina and Patagonia. The collection is in a process of ordering for it to the scientific
community to access the material with ease. This arrangement allows recognizing
the deposited type material, most of it corresponding to Argentina´s species described
by J. M. Cei, who conducted his investigations at this institute between 1955 and 1980.
Also developed research in the Institute R. Donoso-Barros, J. A. Scolaro, F. Videla,
L. P. Castro, G. Macola and V. Roig, among others. The type material comprises a total of
295 specimens, belonging to 38 species, 32 of them being holotypes and 263 paratypes.
The materials designated as Neotypes of Liolaemus anomalus Koslowsky, 1896 and
Liolaemus melanops Burmeister, 1868 do not constitute type material since the original
types were found. Fourteen types that should have been deposited in the collection were
not found, including the holotype of Homonota andicola Cei, 1978.
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