Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo regularis rangeri Hewitt, 1935, Rec. Albany Mus., 4: 285. Syntypes: AMG (2 specimens), by original designation; now in PEM. Type locality: "Gleniffer, near Kei Road, C[ape]. P[rovince].", Rep. South Africa.

Bufo rangeri — Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 57.

Amietophrynus rangeri — 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

Raucous Toad (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 106; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 4; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 74; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 154).

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

Ranger's Toad (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 93).

Distribution

Throughout South Africa excluding the central Karoo region; along the Orange River into extreme southern Namibia; possibly to be found in extreme southeastern Botswana, extreme southern Zimbabwe, extreme southwestern Mozambique, and extreme southern Mozambique.

Comment

In the Bufo regularis group of Martin, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 61, and Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 93, Cunningham, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 77-80, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 519-521, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 154-155, provided accounts.

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