Breviceps macrops Boulenger, 1907
Breviceps macrops Boulenger, 1907, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 20: 46. Syntypes: BMNH (3 specimens exchanged from SAM), by original designation; BMNH 1907.6.12.1 designated lectotype by implication ("Type") by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 196. Type locality: "Namaqualand", Rep. South Africa.
English Names
Desert Rain Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 100; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 218; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 116).
Melkpadda (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 100).
Web-footed Rain Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 4).
Boulenger's Short-headed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 87).
Distribution
Coast of Little Namaqualand from just south of Kleinsee (extreme western Rep. South Africa) to Lüderitz (extreme southwestern Namibia).
Comment
See accounts by De Villiers, 1988, in Branch (ed.), South Afr. Red Data Book, Amph. Rept.: 116-118, and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 218-219, and Minter, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 180-182, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 116-117. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 446. Channing and Wahlberg, 2011, Afr. J. Herpetol., 60: 101-112, reported on life history, conservation status, and distribution.
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