Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo angusticeps amatolica Hewitt, 1925, Rec. Albany Mus., 3: 360. Syntypes: 13 specimens including AMG 4044, 4922, according to XXX; now in PEM. Type locality: "Amatola Range, near Hogsback, . . . . on the summit of the range at about 5,500 feet", Eastern Cape Province, Rep. South Africa.

Bufo amatolica — Hewitt, 1926, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 20: 487. Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 44.

Bufo amatolicus — Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 34.

Vandijkophrynus amatolicus — 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: 366.

English Names

Amatola Toad (Hewitt, 1937, Guide Vert. Fauna E. Cape Province, Rept. Amph. Fishes: 89; Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 111; Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 3; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 62; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 61; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 174).

Distribution

Moist upland grasslands in the Winterberg--Amatola Escarpment, Eastern Cape Province, Rep. South Africa, 1400-1800 m elevation.

Comment

See accounts by Boycott, 1988, in Branch (ed.), South Afr. Red Data Book, Amph. Rept.: 111-112, and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 61. See accounta by Boycott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 56-58, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 174-175. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo amatolicus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 178. Tarrant and Cunningham, 2011, Afr. Herp News, 55: 1-6, reported on the rediscovery and conservation status of this frog.

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