Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo regularis poweri Hewitt, 1935, Rec. Albany Mus., 4: 293. Syntypes: AMG (5 specimens), by original designation; now in PEM. Type locality: "Kimberley", Free State, Rep. South Africa.

Bufo poweri — Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 78.

Amietophrynus poweri — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 363.

English Names

Common Lowveld Toad (Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 78).

Kimberley Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).

Power's Toad (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 90).

Western Olive Toad (Du Preez, Cunningham, and Turner, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 76; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 152).

Distribution

Northern half of Namibia, extreme southern Angola, extreme southern Zambia, and northern, eastern, and southeastern Botswana southward to central Rep. South Africa (see comment).

Comment

In the Bufo regularis group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159. Without comment, considered a synonym of Bufo garmani by Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 80, and Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159, and Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 51-52. Poynton and Broadley, 1988, Ann. Natal Mus., 29: 457, noted that Bufo poweri and Bufo pseudogarmani might be conspecific (while retaining Bufo pseudogarmani in the synonymy of Bufo garmani). Maintains small, but consistent call differences from Bufo garmani according to Channing, 1991, S. Afr. J. Zool., 26: 81-84. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 91, Du Preez, Cunningham, and Turner, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 76-77, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 521-525, provided accounts, and considered all populations of nominal Bufo garmani from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to be Bufo poweri. Broadley, 2007, Afr. J. Herpetol., 56: 175-177, regarded the situation as more complex, with the population in the Kalahari sands in Hwange National Park and at Dete to be Amietophrynus poweri, but populations to the east to not be Amietophrynus poweri (all as Bufo).

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