The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura)

The toad species Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 was erected for a single specimen from South Africa which has never been properly studied and allocated to a known species. A morphometrical and morphological analysis of this specimen and its comparison with 75 toad specimens referred to five Sout...

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Autores principales: Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
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Taxonomy
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788431
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1553
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description The toad species Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 was erected for a single specimen from South Africa which has never been properly studied and allocated to a known species. A morphometrical and morphological analysis of this specimen and its comparison with 75 toad specimens referred to five South African toad species allowed to allocate this specimen to the species currently known as Amietophrynus rangeri. In consequence, the nomen Sclerophrys must replace Amietophrynus as the valid nomen of the genus, and capensis as the valid nomen of the species. This work stresses the usefulness of natural history collections for solving taxonomic and nomenclatural problems.
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spelling pubmed-47154452016-01-19 The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura) Ohler, Annemarie Dubois, Alain PeerJ Taxonomy The toad species Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 was erected for a single specimen from South Africa which has never been properly studied and allocated to a known species. A morphometrical and morphological analysis of this specimen and its comparison with 75 toad specimens referred to five South African toad species allowed to allocate this specimen to the species currently known as Amietophrynus rangeri. In consequence, the nomen Sclerophrys must replace Amietophrynus as the valid nomen of the genus, and capensis as the valid nomen of the species. This work stresses the usefulness of natural history collections for solving taxonomic and nomenclatural problems. PeerJ Inc. 2016-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4715445/ /pubmed/26788431 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1553 Text en ©2016 Ohler and Dubois http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura)
title The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura)
title_full The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura)
title_fullStr The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura)
title_full_unstemmed The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura)
title_short The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura)
title_sort identity of the south african toad sclerophrys capensis tschudi, 1838 (amphibia, anura)
topic Taxonomy
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788431
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1553
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