Capensibufo deceptus Channing, Measey, De Villiers, Turner, and Tolley, 2017

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Capensibufo > Species: Capensibufo deceptus

Capensibufo deceptus Channing, Measey, De Villiers, Turner, and Tolley, 2017, Zootaxa, 4232: 284. Holotype: NMB A8099, by original designation. Type locality: "a plateau below Deception Peak in the DuToits Mountains (33.78419°S, 19.19886°E, 1686 m)", Western Cape Province, Rep. South Africa. Zoobank publication registration: 5297005A-DF45-43E9-945A-135722DE72EF

English Names

Deception Peak Mountain Toadlet (original publication). 

Distribution

Known with certainty only from the DuToits Mountains in the Western Cape Province of Rep. South Africa, from below Deception Peak, although the population from the widely disjunct Koeël Mountain (Kogelberg) ± 980 m was provisionally assigned to this species. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: South Africa

Endemic: South Africa

Comment

 Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 84–85, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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