Bufo fenoulheti rhodesianus Hewitt 1932

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 fenoulheti rhodesianus Hewitt 1932

Annals of the Natal Museum, 7(1): 110; Pl. VI, Figs. 2 & 3 .

Current name: Poyntonophrynus fenoulheti ( Hewitt and Methuen, 1912)

Lectotype: PEM A9079 (formerly AMG 6067); Farm Driefontein, near Gwelo, Zimbabwe; K. Tasman, 25 April 1929.

Paralectotypes (15): PEM A9080–9094 (formerly AMG 6067); same details as lectotype.

Remarks. The type description only refers to a ‘series’ of specimens and no specific reference is made to any particular specimen in the type description. A male (PEM A9079) and female (PEM A9085) conform to individuals illustrated (Pl.VI, fig. 2, 3) and we designate the illustrated male as the lectotype. The type description does not indicate a collection date, but the original labels record 25 April 1929. All specimens have incisions on the lower abdomen, except for two intact juveniles. Full body X-rays are available for all 16 type specimens. Poynton (1964) rejected the distinctiveness of this species from Bufo fenoulheti fenoulheti . Frost et al. (2006) placed the species in the new genus Poyntonophrynus .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Family Breviciptidae: A—Holotype of Breviceps acutirostris (PEM A 1540), B—Lectotype of Breviceps fuscus (PEM A 4826), C—Lectotype of Breviceps tympanifer (PEM A 4811), D—Lectotype of Breviceps parvus (PEM A 1534), E—Lectotype of Breviceps parvus caffer (PEM A 849).

FIGURE 3. Family Bufonidae I: A— Lectotype of Bufo fenoulheti rhodesianus (PEM A 9079), B—Lectotye of Bufo fenoulheti (PEM A 825), C— Lectotype of Bufo angusticeps amatolica (PEM A 828), D—Holotype of Bufo robinsoni (PEM A 2492), E— Holotype of Bufo gariepensis nubicola (PEM A 2513), F—Lectotype of Bufo rosei (PEM A 5132).