Bufo angusticeps amatolica Hewitt 1925b

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 angusticeps amatolica Hewitt 1925b

Records of the Albany Museum, 3(4): 360–362; Pl. XV, Fig. 3 . Current name: Vandijkophrynus amatolicus ( Hewitt, 1925b)

Lectotype: PEM A833 (formerly AMG 4044); Amatola Range, near Hogsback, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; G. Rattray, December 1918.

Paralectotypes (5): (a) PEM A828, 829, 831, 832 (formerly AMG 4922); Amatola Range, near Hogsback, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; R. Essex, September 1924. (b) PEM A834 (formerly AMG 4044); same information as lectotype.

Remarks. The type description refers to a series of specimens, but gives no indication of the actual number. It specifically mentions a female measuring 35 mm, and illustrates a specimen (Pl. XV, fig. 3). Thirteen specimens were present in the type bottle, which Poynton (1964) considered as comprising the type series. However, this is an error as four specimens have AMG numbers (7003 and 8912) which could only have been issued after 1926, one specimen has no label, and two remaining specimens have AMG numbers (4365) that were issued between December 1918 and September 1924, and are therefore not referable to either of the two collections mentioned in the type description. We therefore restrict the type series to the six remaining specimens directly linked to the type description, including two intact specimens collected by Rattray (AMG 4044) and four specimens collected by Essex (AMG 4922, of which three have abdominal incisions). One intact AMG 4044 (PEM A833) specimen conforms to the illustration in Plate XV, and to stabilize the situation we therefore designate the illustrated specimen as the lectotype. The remaining five specimens of the AMG 4044 and AMG 4922 series become paralectotypes. Full body X-rays exist for all six type specimens. Elevated to full species ( Bufo amatolica ) by Hewitt (1926), nomenclaturally corrected to Bufo amatolicus by Frost (1985), and transferred to a new genus, Vandijkophrynus by Frost et al. (2006).

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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).