Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo angusticeps Smith, 1848, Illust. Zool. S. Afr., 3 (Part 27): pl. 69, figs. 1 and 1a. Syntypes: BMNH 58.11.25.160-163, according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 35. Type locality: "Interior of South Africa . . . in districts coated with underwood".

Vandijkophrynus angusticeps — 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

Sand Toad (Rose, 1950, Rep. Amph. S. Afr.: 97; Rose, 1962, Rep. Amph. S. Afr., Ed. 2: 92; Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 110; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 3; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 44; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).

Cape Sand Toad (Cunningham, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 58; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 176).

Common Cape Toad (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 110; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 4; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 44).

Narrow-headed Toad (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15).

Distribution

Fynbos biome in southwestern and southern part of Western Cape Province to extreme southwestern Eastern Cape Province, Rep. South Africa, 0-1500 m elevation.

Comment

Brief accounts by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 43-44, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 63, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 176-177. Cunningham, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 58-60, provided an account and noted difficulty in identification on occasion from other members of the group.

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