Bufo robinsoni Branch and Braack 1996

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 robinsoni Branch and Braack 1996

Madoqua, 19(1): 15–23, Figs. 1–3 , 4 .

Current name: Vandijkophrynus robinsoni (Branch and Braack, 1996)

Holotype: PEM A2492; Paradise Gorge (28°19'45"S; 17°00'15"E, alt. 466 m a.s.l.) in the northern foothills of the Vandersterberg, Richtersveld National Park, Cape Province, South Africa. The type locality is a series of about eight small, spring-fed freshwater pools (all less than 15 m 2 in surface area) in a narrow gorge cutting through quartzite; W.R. Branch, H. Braack, R. Hall and M. Raffe, 14 September 1992.

Paratypes (6): PEM A 2256–58, 2289, 2491, and 3421; same data as holotype, except PEM A2258 which was collected by H. Braack, 4 June 1992.

Additional specimens: The type description mentions additional series of adults ( PEM A 2489–90, 2483, 2488 and 2516) and tadpoles/metamorphs ( PEM A2518).

Remarks. Other paratypes are in TMP (no. 79426) and CAS (no. 193556, 193559, 193569–70). Frost et al. (2006) placed this species in a new genus, Vandijkophrynus .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Family Pyxicephalidae I: A—Lectotype of Anhydrophryne rattrayi (PEM A 6334), B—Lectotype of Arthroleptella bicolor villiersi (PEM A 1568), C—Holotype of Arthroleptella drewesii (PEM A 2319), D—Holotype of Arthroleptella landdrosia (PEM A 7123).

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).