Poyntonia paludicola Channing and Boycott 1989

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) : -

Poyntonia paludicola Channing and Boycott 1989

Copeia, 1989(2):467–471; Figs. 2–5 .

Holotype: PEM A1600; Southern slopes of the Steenbras Mountains in the Kogelberg Forest Reserve (34°14'S, 18°52'E), Western Cape Province, South Africa; W. Zuchini and A. Channing, 22 August 1987.

Paratypes (3): PEM A 1601–1603; same details as holotype, but collected by W. Sirgel, D.E. van Dijk, and A. Channing, 21 August 1987.

Additional specimens: The following PEM specimens were also examined in the type description: PEM A 1587–1599, and 1602. Type description also mentions tadpoles ( PEM A1604), which are not accounted for.

Remarks. Holotype and two paratypes (PEM A1601, 1602) with anterior ventral incision. Paratype (PEM A1603) and additional specimen (PEM A1595) cleared and stained with alizarin. Additional specimen (PEM A1589), dried skeleton. Two other paratypes are in CAS (no. 165936) and KU (no. 207857).

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).

FIGURE 4. Family Bufonidae II: A—Lectotype of Bufo regularis pardalis (PEM A 837), B—Lectotype of Bufo regularis rangeri (PEM A 822).

FIGURE 5. Family Pyxicephalidae II: A—Holotype of Cacosternum thorini (PEM A 10091), B—Holotype of Cacosternum karooicum (PEM A 5459), C—Holotype of Poyntonia paludicola (PEM A 1600), D—Lectotype of Natalobatrachus bonebergi (PEM A 1549), E—Lectotype of Cacosternum capense (PEM A 4963).