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Heleophryne rosei

Heleophryne rosei

Hewitt, 1925

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Remarks. The documentation of the material of Hewitt (1925 b) is poor and ambiguous: “ … founded on adult male and female examples and full grown tadpoles ”, thus possibly referring to more than one male and female. The type bottle received from AM only contained one adult male and female, plus 10 tadpoles. It is proposed that PEM A 1541 (female) be designated as a lectotype and PEM A 1542 (male) as allolectotype. The lectotype has a midventral incision and an oblique incision behind the parotid. The allolectotype has an oblique dorsal incision from left eye to right lower thorax, musculature upper right fore-limb dissected, and mid ventral incision present. Type series include 10 tadpoles, accounted for but in very poor condition. The X-ray of the adult female is illustrated in PL. XVIII and is the first time Hewitt used X-rays in describing the osteology (p. 365) of a species in southern Africa. Full body X-rays are available for both adult types and the two largest tadpoles.
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 rosei

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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 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 12/31/2015View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
119600668
Dataset Key
60942119-aabc-4fba-b245-ac8441ca2397
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2428943
Taxon ID
2E7387E1EF19FFA4FF76FD19FB85FA97.taxon
Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
6/11/2026
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