Amietia vandijki (Visser and Channing, 1997)
Afrana vandijki Visser and Channing, 1997, J. Afr. Zool., 111: 192. Holotype: TMP 80222, by original designation. Type locality: "Swartberg Pass . . . . The Swartberg Pass crosses the Swartberg mountain range at 1800 m (33° 21′ S, 22° 03′ E)."
Amietia vandyki — 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: 367.
English Names
Van Dijk's River Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 263; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 406).
Distribution
High elevations of the Swartberg and Langeberg ranges in the southern part of Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Comment
See accounts (as Afrana vandijki) by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 263-264, and Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 274-276, as well as that of Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 406-407.
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