Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 1: Amphibians
Author
Conradie, Werner
Author
Branch, William R.
Author
Watson, Gillian
text
Zootaxa
2015
3936
1
journal volume
10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.2
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1175-5326
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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
.