Bufo rosei Hewitt 1926

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2015, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 1: Amphibians, Zootaxa 3936 (1) : -

Bufo rosei Hewitt 1926

Annals of the South African Museum, 20: 417–418; Pl. XXXVII. Current name: Capensibufo rosei ( Hewitt, 1926)

Lectotype: PEM A5132 (formerly AMG 4981); Muizenberg Mountain, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape Province, South Africa; W. Rose, 10 March 1925.

Paralectotypes (7): PEM A5133–39 (formerly AM 4981); same details as lectotype.

Remarks. The type description does not list where the types were deposited, but Frost (2014) notes that they are in the PEM where a series of eight specimens with the same collection details provided in the type description are present. One of these specimens (PEM A5132) conforms to the illustration (Pl. XXXVII), and to the snout-vent length (25 mm) provided in the text (p. 418). We therefore designate PEM A5132 as the lectotype. The remaining seven specimens bear the same AM number and the date 10 March 1925 (the type description only states a collection date of March 1925), and can be confidently considered paralectotypes from the original series. Transferred to the new genus Capensibufo by Grandison (1980).