Xenopus petersii Bocage, 1895

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

Xenopus petersii Bocage, 1895

Specimen.

Angola: Benguella : BMNH 1867.7.23.25 .

Comments.

The specimen in the British Museum, collected by Anchieta in “ Benguella ”, was likely among the first specimens of this species that Bocage examined. It was presented to the British Museum in 1867 as “ Dactylethra Mulleri ” ( NHMA /DF/ZOO/200/1/195 ) and cited by Boulenger (1882 b) as Xenopus muelleri , years before Bocage (1895 a) described Xenopus petersii .