Bufo regularis rangeri Hewitt 1935

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 regularis rangeri Hewitt 1935

Records of the Albany Museum, 4(2): 285.

Current name: Amietophrynus rangeri ( Hewitt, 1935)

Lectotype: PEM A822 (formerly AMG 7248); Gleniffer, near Kei Road, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; G.A. Ranger, November 1934.

Allolectotype: PEM A823 (formerly AMG 7248); same details as lectotype.

Remarks. The type description notes: “ Types: an adult male and an adult female”. However, more than 30 specimens from the two AM series noted for the species (AMG 7248 and 7270) are present in the PEM. As with the previous species we choose the lower (oldest) series as containing the types. Measurements are provided for the types (p. 285), and conform to those of an adult male and female in this series. Thus we designate PEM A822 (male) as the lectotype and PEM A823 (female) as the allolectotype. Full body X-ray exists for the lectotype. Elevated to full species by Poynton (1964), and Frost et al. (2006) placed this and other large African bufonids in the new genus Amietophrynus .