Breviceps parvus caffer Hewitt 1932

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) : -

Breviceps parvus caffer Hewitt 1932

Annals of the Natal Museum, 7(1): 109.

Current name: Breviceps adspersus Peters, 1882

Lectotype: PEM A849 (formerly AMG 5963); Gleniffer, near Kei Road, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; G.A. Ranger, 11 January 1928.

Paralectotypes (6): PEM A843–848 (all formerly AMG 5963); same details as lectotype.

Remarks. A total of nine specimens are present in the type bottle, all from the type locality. Two of the specimens (PEM A 1417 and 1418) clearly do not belong to the same AMG 5963 series, as the original labels tied to the specimens differ in paper type, size, writing and the manner in which they are tied to the specimens. We thus regard these as topotypes collected after the original type series. In the type description a specific male measuring 28 mm is mentioned, which corresponds best to PEM A849 and we thus designate it as the lectotype. No specimens are illustrated in the type description. All material has a single ventral incision, except for the two additional specimens. Full body X-rays exist for all the types, as well as the additional specimens. One extra syntype (now MCZ A-17691) was sent in an exchange to MCZ from AMG ( Barbour and Loveridge 1946). Synonymised with Breviceps adspersus by Poynton (1964).