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Heleophryne hewitti

Heleophryne hewitti

Boycott, 1988

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Descriptions(2)

Remarks. All types bear a medial ventral incision. The original description mentions additional paratypes deposited in the BA, MCZ, NM, SAM and TMP.
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), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.2
Holotype: PEM A 11156 (formerly AMG A 621); Upper reaches of the Geelhoutboom River, Loerie Forest Reserve, Elandsberg Mountains (33 ° 47 ' 54 " S, 25 ° 03 ' 43 " E. Alt. 420 m, 3325 CC Loerie), Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; R. Boycott, 17 October 1979. Paratypes (12): (a) PEM A 458 – 459, PEM A 11148, 11149, 11152, 11153, 11154, (formerly AMG A 697, 698, 696, 695, 613); same details as holotype. (b) PEM A 460, PEM A 11155 (formerly AMG A 699); Martins River. (c) PEM A 461, PEM A 11151 (formerly AMG A 622); Klein River. (d) PEM A 11150 (formerly AMG A 694); Diepkloof River. All paratypes collected by A. Jones, D. Smith-Belton and R. Boycott from 10 October 1979 – 30 October 1980. Additional specimens: The following series of tadpoles mentioned in the type description are unaccounted for: a) type locality (AMG A 614; PEM A 463); Martin River (AMG A 719; PEM A 464); Klein River (AMG A 628, 629; PEM A 462) and Diepkloof River (AMG A 630).
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), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.2

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AnimaliaChordataAmphibiaAnuraHeleophrynidaeHeleophryneHeleophryne hewitti

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FIGURE 1. Family Pyxicephalidae I: A—Lectotype of Anhydrophryne rattrayi (PEM A 6334), B—Lectotype of Arthroleptella bicolor villiersi (PEM A 1568), C—Holotype of Arthroleptella drewesii (PEM A 2319), D—Holotype of Arthroleptella landdrosia (PEM A 7123).

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Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 1: Amphibians

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal volume 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), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.2

Abstract

The Port Elizabeth Museum houses the consolidated herpetological collections of three provincial museums of the Eastern Cape, South Africa: the Port Elizabeth Museum (Port Elizabeth), the Amatole (previously Kaffarian) Museum (King Williams Town), and the Albany Museum (Grahamstown). Under John Hewitt, Albany Museum was the main centre of herpetological research in South Africa from 1910–1940, and he described numerous new species, many based on material in the museum collection. The types and other material from the Albany Museum are now incorporated into the Port Elizabeth Museum Herpetology collection (PEM). Due to the vague typification of much of Hewitt’s material, the loss of the original catalogues in a fire and the subsequent deterioration of specimen labels, the identification of this type material is often troublesome. Significant herpetological research has been undertaken at the PEM in the last 35 years, and the collection has grown to be the third largest in Africa. During this period, numerous additional types have been deposited in the PEM collection, generated by active taxonomic research in the museum. As a consequence, 43 different amphibian taxa are represented by 37 primary and 151 secondary type specimens in the collection. This catalogue provides the first documentation of these types. It provides the original name, the original publication date, journal number and pagination, reference to illustrations, current name, museum collection number, type locality, notes on the type status, and photographs of all holotypes and lectotypes. Where necessary to maintain nomenclatural stability, and where confused type series are housed in the PEM collection, lectotypes and paralectotypes are nominated.

Key words: Amphibia, Port Elizabeth Museum, Albany Museum, types

Conradie W, Branch W R, Watson G, plazi (2015). Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 1: Amphibians. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.2 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-16.

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GBIF Usage Key
119600667
Dataset Key
60942119-aabc-4fba-b245-ac8441ca2397
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Backbone Key
2428944
Taxon ID
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Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
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