Vandijkophrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006
Vandijkophrynus 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: 220. Type species: Bufo angusticeps Smith, 1848, by original designation.
English Names
Van Dijk's Toads (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 172).
Distribution
Extreme southern Namibia through Rep. South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland to Zimbabwe and Mozamibique.
Comment
Vandijkophrynus is the former Bufo angusticeps group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158. Smith and Chiszar, 2006, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 1: 6-8, implied that this taxon should be considered a subgenus of Bufo; see comment under Bufonidae. Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10, did not address this taxon, but in a subsequent more densely-sampled analysis found Vandijkophrynus to be imbedded within an African clade composed of Capensibufo, Poyntonophrynus, and Mertensophryne. Van Bocxlaer, Loader, Roelants, Biju, Menegon, and Bossuyt, 2010, Science, 327: 679-682, Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 172-183, provided a key and accounts for the species of the southern Africa. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of this taxon (although this is difficult to see because the authors explicitly adopted a non-monophyletic and out-dated taxonomy), provided a tree for their exemplar species, and suggested that it is the sister taxon of Poyntonophrynus + Mertensophryne.
Contained taxa
- Vandijkophrynus amatolicus (Hewitt, 1925)
- Vandijkophrynus angusticeps (Smith, 1848)
- Vandijkophrynus gariepensis (Smith, 1848)
- Vandijkophrynus inyangae (Poynton, 1963)
- Vandijkophrynus robinsoni (Branch and Braack, 1996)
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