Bufo regularis poweri Hewitt, 1935

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 regularis poweri Hewitt, 1935

Records of the Albany Museum, 4(2): 293–294.

Current name: Amietophrynus poweri ( Hewitt, 1935)

Syntypes (5): Unknown AMG number; Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; J.H. Power, date unknown.

Remarks. During the devastating fire at the Albany Museum the catalogue was destroyed and led to poor documentation of the remaining specimens. The type description notes that the types were deposited in the AMG, but does not provide any registration numbers to aid in the search of these specimens. A search through the PEM collection revealed a bottle with four specimens of this species from Kimberley. However, the labels were simply tied around a hind leg, unlike the unique labeling of all John Power’s specimens where the labels are surgically pierced through the lower leg. For this reason they are unlikely to be the missing types, which may have been destroyed in the fire or were misplaced during the move to PEM.