Breviceps fuscus Hewitt 1925
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Description
Breviceps fuscus Hewitt 1925a
Annals of the Natal Museum, 5(2): 191–192; Pl. X, Fig. 5.
Lectotype: PEM A4826 (original AMG number unknown, re-accessioned as AMA 522); Knysna, Western Cape Province, South Africa; J.H. Rex, date unknown.
Paralectotype: PEM A4827 (original AMG number unknown, re-accessioned as AMA 521); same details as lectotype.
Remarks. The type description notes the types comprise of two adult specimens [= syntypes]. No specific reference is made in the text to a specific specimen, but one is illustrated in the plates. Two specimens are present in the PEM with the same details provided in the type description. One specimen has a very old label tied to the right leg that reads “Knysna H. Rex”. The other specimen lacks an original label, but constriction marks indicate that an old label (now lost) was tied around the right leg. This specimen conforms best to the illustration, but due to the better condition of the previous specimen we designate it (PEM A4826) as the lectotype. It is intact and in good condition, whilst the paralectotype has mid- and transverse ventral incisions.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hewitt
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Brevicipitidae
- Genus
- Breviceps
- Species
- fuscus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Breviceps fuscus Hewitt, 1925 sec. Conradie, Branch & Watson, 2015
References
- Hewitt, J. (1925 a) Descriptions of three toads belonging to the genus Breviceps Merren. Annals of the Natal Museum, 5, 189 - 194.