Breviceps montanus Power 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) : -

Breviceps montanus Power 1926

Annals of the South African Museum, 20: 466. Pl. XLIII; Figs. 3 & 4 .

Syntype: PEM A4725 (original AMG number unknown, re-accessioned as AMA 82); Table Mountain, Western Cape Province, South Africa; H.W. Oakley, W.L. Sclater and F. Cruden, date unknown.

Remarks. The specimen has a ventral incision and the stomach contents and eggs have been removed and stored in separate vials. Plate XLIII, Fig. 3 & 4 in the type description illustrates two different specimens, evident from the way the arms are preserved pointing forward in the dorsal image ( Fig. 3 ) and stretched out to the sides in the ventral image ( Fig. 4 ). The syntype in PEM conforms to the latter. The dorsal image must refer to one of the other two syntypes in the South African Museum.

Figures

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).