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Breviceps tympanifer

Breviceps tympanifer

Hewitt, 1925

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Remarks. The designation of types in the original description is confusing: “ Types – Two adult examples from Pirie, C. P., presented to the Albany Museum (no. 1390) by the Rev. Robert Godfrey. Other smaller specimens in the same collection were taken at Hogsback, Amatola Range (Dr. G. Rattray), and Qacu Forest, near Tois River (Mr. T. Liefeldt); the Durban Museum has the same species from Umbilo (L. Brevis.) ”. Obviously the two specimens from Pirie, of which only one (now PEM A 4811) was present in the material received from AMG, must be considered syntypes. We included the other smaller specimen from Hogsback and Qacu Forest as part of the type series. The specimen from Umbilo (Durban Museum) may simply be additional material. To stabilize the situation, we designate PEM A 4811 (the only remaining specimen from Pirie) as the lectotype, and regard the smaller specimens from Hogsback (PEM A 4812) and Qacu Forest (PEM A 4809) as paralectotypes. Synonymised with Breviceps verrucosus by Poynton (1964).
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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AnimaliaChordataAmphibiaAnuraBrevicipitidaeBrevicepsBreviceps tympanifer

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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).

Imageimage/png© Conradie, Werner;Branch, William R.;Watson, GillianConradie, Werner;Branch, William R.;Watson, Gillian

FIGURE 2. Family Breviciptidae: A—Holotype of Breviceps acutirostris (PEM A 1540), B—Lectotype of Breviceps fuscus (PEM A 4826), C—Lectotype of Breviceps tympanifer (PEM A 4811), D—Lectotype of Breviceps parvus (PEM A 1534), E—Lectotype of Breviceps parvus caffer (PEM A 849).

Imageimage/png© Conradie, Werner;Branch, William R.;Watson, GillianConradie, Werner;Branch, William R.;Watson, Gillian

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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 2026-06-19.

CC0Published 12/31/2015View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
119600756
Dataset Key
60942119-aabc-4fba-b245-ac8441ca2397
Origin
source
Backbone Key
8615885
Taxon ID
2E7387E1EF00FFBCFF76F979FE1EFDAC.taxon
Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
6/11/2026
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