Cacosternum boettgeri (Boulenger, 1882)
Arthroleptis boettgeri Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 118. Syntypes: BMNH (4 specimens), including animal figured on pl. 11, fig. 6 in the original publication. Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 110, reported a BMNH "holotype". Type locality: "Vleis, Kaffraria", Cape Province, Rep. South Africa.
Cacosternum boettgeri — Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 317-323. Boulenger, 1910, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 5: 533.
Arthroleptis schebeni Nieden, 1914 "1913", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1913: 451. Syntypes: ZMB (4 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Deutsch-Südwestafrika [= Namibia] .... Klein Nauas (in der Kalahari". Synonymy by Mertens, 1955, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 490: 1-171.
Cacosternum boettgeri boettgeri — Hewitt, 1926, Ann. Natal Mus., 5: 440.
English Names
Boettger's Frog (Hewitt, 1937, Guide Vert. Fauna E. Cape Province, Rept. Amph. Fishes: 104).
Dainty Frog (Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 80; Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 167).
Common Caco (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 182).
Common Dainty Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 182).
Boettger's Dainty Frog (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 6; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 182; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 131; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 287; Scott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 222).
Boettger's Froglet (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 6; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 182).
Boettger's Metal Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).
Boettger's Caco (Scott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 222; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 364).
Boettger's Dainty Frog (Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 198).
Distribution
Most of southern Africa, but only in uplands north of the Tropic of Capricorn, and possibly and in isolated highland areas north to Ethiopia (see comment).
Comment
See accounts by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 146-147, Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 174, Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 110-111, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 287-288, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 284-286, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 364-365. See comment under Cacosternum striatus. Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 344, commented on distribution. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 263-264, removed the Tanzania and Kenya population from this taxon as "Plimpton's Dainty Frog" (Cacosternum plimptoni). With the removal of "Plimpton's Dainty Frog" the status of the Ethiopian population remains questionable as noted by Zimkus, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 233. Bates and Haacke, 2003, Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 19: 1137-138, discussed the species in Lesotho. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 198-199.
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