Author: Boycott, Richard.C.
Title: Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums. Volume 16. Part 11. Description of a Species of Heleophryne Sclater, 1899 from the Cape Province, South Africa (Anura: Heleophrynidae).
Description: Cape Provincial Museum, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Natural History. Volume 16. Part 11. 30th May 1988. Stapled wraps, p309-p319. illustrated, 184mm wide x 240mm high. New unread copy. A new species of ghost frog, genus Heleophryne, is described. H. hewitti sp. nov. is known only from the Elandsberg Mountains, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It is geographically isolated from Heleophryne regis and other Heleophryne populations in the southern Cape Province. Diagnostic features include a unique mating call and characteristic dorsal colour-pattern. It is considered to belong to the H. purcelli/regis species complex in the Cape Folded Mountain Belt. Certain morphological features shared by members of this complex are identified and presented.

Keywords: albany museum grahamstown eastern cape cape provincial museum herpetology south southern africa african frogs heleophrynidae


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