Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Cacosternum striatus FitzSimons, 1947, Ann. Natal Mus., 11: 130. Holotype: TMP 21447, by original designation. Type locality: "marshes bordering Athlone Drive, on the north of the Country Club Golf Course, Durban, Natal", Rep. South Africa.

Cacosternum striatum — Frost, 2004, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 3.0: . gender agreement.

English Names

Striped Metal Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Striped Caco (Scott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 237; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 380).

Distribution

Southern and eastern KwaZulu-Natal, Rep. South Africa, and adjacent Lesotho.

Comment

Resurrected from the synonymy of Cacosternum boettgeri by Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 111-112, where it had been placed by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 146. See accounts by Scott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 237-239, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 380-381. Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 290-291, provided additional comments. Bates and Haacke, 2003, Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 19: 140, discussed the species in Lesotho.

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