Strongylopus bonaespei (Dubois, 1981)
Rana fasciata montana FitzSimons, 1946, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 20: 351. Holotype: TMP 20223. Type locality: "upper slopes of the Jonkersberg . . . . [from page 352] a forest station on southern slopes of Attaqua Mountains, between Deepwalls, a forestry station just north of Knysna, Cape Province"", Rep. South Africa. Junior primary homonym of Rana temporaria montanus Koch, 1872.
Rana montana — Greig, Boycott, and de Villiers, 1979, Ann. Cape Prov. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 13: 2.
Strongylopus montanus — Channing, 1979, Ann. Natal Mus., 23: 797-831.
Rana (Strongylopus) bonaespei Dubois, 1981 "1980", Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 2: 929. Replacement name for Rana fasciata montana FitzSimons, 1946.
Rana (Stronglylopus) bonaespei — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233. by implication; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 50; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.
Strongylopus bonaespei — Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 352.
English Names
Banded Sand Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 142; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 420).
Mountain Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 142).
Jonkersberg Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).
Banded Stream Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 352; De Villiers and Boycott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 308-309).
Distribution
Mountain ranges of the the Western Cape Province and extreme southwestern Eastern Cape Province, Rep. South Africa.
Comment
See accounts by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 352-353, De Villiers and Boycott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 308-309, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 420-421.
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