Kassina wealii

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) : -

Kassina wealii quinque-vittata Hewitt 1927

Records of the Albany Museum, 3: 409; Pl. XXIV, Fig. 4 . Current name: Semnodactylus wealii (Boulenger, 1882)

Holotype: PEM A6289 (formerly AMG 1320); Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa. W. Rose. Date not stated in original publication; original label reads 9 October 1925.

Additional specimens: PEM A6288 (formerly AMG 1320); same details as holotype.

Remarks. Hewitt (1927) incorrectly used the spelling Kassina wealii quinquevittata in the Plate legends (p. 415). In the type description an adult male with snout vent length 30 mm is referred to as the type [= holotype], we thus treat PEM A6289 as the holotype. No additional type specimens are mentioned in the type description, but a smaller male is also illustrated with outstretched legs (Pl. XXIV, Fig. 4 ). This illustration fits PEM A6288 (AMG 1320, same details as holotype), but this can only be considered additional material mentioned in the type description. The type description states that the type is “in the South African Museum”, but Hewitt appears to have changed his mind after the article was published and accessioned it into the AM. Lambiris (1988) questioned the type to be in PEM and not SAM, followed by Frost (2014). Lambiris (1988) further discussed the taxonomic history of the taxa and re-instated the name Semnodactylus Hoffman (1939) which is a senior synonym of Notokassina Drewes (1985).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Family Bufonidae II: A—Lectotype of Bufo regularis pardalis (PEM A 837), B—Lectotype of Bufo regularis rangeri (PEM A 822).