Arthroleptella villiersi Hewitt, 1935
Arthroleptella bicolor villiersi Hewitt, 1935, Rec. Albany Mus., 4: 294. Syntypes: AMG, by original designation. Type locality: "Jonkershoek near Stellenbosch", Cape Province, Rep. South Africa.
Phrynobatrachus (Arthroleptella) bicolor villiersi — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 208. By implication.
Arthroleptella villiersi — Channing, Hendricks, and Dawood, 1994, S. Afr. J. Zool., 29: 242.
English Names
De Villiers' Moss Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 283; Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 218; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 360).
De Villiers' Chirping Frog ( Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 218 [alternative name]).
Distribution
Lower Palmiet Valley, the coastal vegetation near Rooi Els, and on the Palmiet, Hottentots-Holland, and Jonkershoek mountains, Western Cape Province, Rep. South Africa.
Comment
See accounts by Channing, Hendricks, and Dawood, 1994, S. Afr. J. Zool., 29: 240-243, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 283-284, Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 218-219, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 360-361.
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