Bufo robinsoni Branch and Braack 1996
Description
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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bufonidae
- Genus
- Bufo
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anura
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Branch and Braack
- Species
- robinsoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bufo robinsoni and, 1996 sec. Conradie, Branch & Watson, 2015
References
- Frost, D. R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R. H., Haas, A., Haddad, C. F. B., de Sa, R. O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S. C., Raxworthy, C. J., Campbell, J. A., Blotto, B. L., Moler, P. E., Drewes, R. C., Nussbaum, R. A., Lynch, J. D., Green, D. M. & Wheeler, W. C. (2006) The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 297, 1 - 370. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0090 (2006) 297 [0001: TATOL] 2.0. CO; 2