Afrixalus aureus Pickersgill, 1984
Afrixalus aureus Pickersgill, 1984, Durban Mus. Novit., 13: 206. Holotype: BMNH 1983.115, by original designation. Type locality: "Mhlatuze River valley, 6 km north of Eshowe on the Melmoth road in [KwaZulu-]Natal, South Africa".
Afrixalus aureus aureus — Pickersgill, 2005, Steenstrupia, 29: 22.
English Names
Golden Dwarf Reed Frog (Lambiris, 1988, in Branch (ed.), South Afr. Red Data Book, Amph. Rept.: 86).
Golden Banana Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).
Golden Spiny Reed Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 130).
Golden Leaf-folding Frog (Pickersgill and Bishop, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 123).
Golden Dwarf Leaf-folding Frog (Pickersgill and Bishop, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 123 [secondary name]).
Distribution
Mhlatuze Valley in KwaZulu-Natal through the eastern Transvaal (Rep. South Africa), Swaziland, and southern Mozambique.
Comment
Similar to Afrixalus knysnae according to Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 191, who provided a short account. Distinctiveness from Afrixalus delicatus doubted by Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 130. Confused with Afrixalus brachycnemis brachycnemis by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 180, according to Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 78. See accounts by Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 190-191, Lambiris, 1988, in Branch (ed.), South Afr. Red Data Book, Amph. Rept.: 86-87, and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 130-131, Pickersgill and Bishop, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 123-124, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 448-452.
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