Capensibufo magistratus Channing, Measey, Villiers, Turner & Tolley, 2017, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Channing, A., Measey, G. J., De Villiers, A. L., Turner, A. A., Tolley, K. A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Amphibia; Anura; Bufonidae; Capensibufo; Capensibufo magistratus; Stripe; Tolley; Groenland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5676959; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5676959

Capensibufo magistratus sp. nov. Landdroskop Mountain Toadlet Capensibufo rosei (part) Holotype. A male, NMB A8101, collected from Landdroskop in the Hottentot-Holland Mountains, 34.048857°S, 19.008481°E, by A. de Villiers and M.E. de Villiers, 25 August 2014. Paratypes. A female, NMB A8102, collected from Landdroskop in the Hottentot-Holland Mountains, by A.A. Turner, A.L. de Villiers and M.E. de Villiers 21 July 2014, and two males NMB A8103–04 with the same details as the holotype, collected 25 August 2014. Other material examined. NMB A8105–6, male and female, Hawekwas Mountains; four juveniles NMB A8107–10 and a male NMB A8125 from Landdroskop, Hottentots-Holland Mountains; a female NMB A8111, and three males NMB A8112–4 from Jonaskop, Riviersonderend Mountains; a male PEM A10161 from Groenland Mountains; SAM 50013, Jakkals River, Grabouw. Two females, SAM 19435, Bailey's Peak, Limiet Mountain, Hawekwas Mountains; NMB A8123–24, two specimens from Suurvlakte, Hawekwas Mountains. GenBank sequences. AF 220911, AF463795, Landdroskop (Cunningham & Cherry 2004), FN652330, FN650126, Landdroskop (Tolley et al. 2010); FN652331–38, FN650127–34, Jonaskop (Tolley et al. 2010); FN652325–27, FN650113, FN650122 –3, Hawekwas Mountains (Tolley et al. 2010). KY171942– 43, Suurvlakte, Hawekwas Mountains (NMB A18123 –24). Diagnosis. There is no visible tympanum in C. magistratus, which distinguishes it from C. tradouwi and C. deceptus. In preservative, the dorsal spots consist of a grey center, with incomplete dark rings, sometimes with thin white outer margins. The umbraculum is angular, separating it from those species with rounded umbracula: C. rosei, C. selenophos, and C. tradouwi. The center third of the parotid is usually expanded, while the anterior third is usually wider in C. rosei. The parotid of C. deceptus is not expanded. There is a broad very diffuse pale vertebral band, sometimes with a thin white mid-dorsal line. The vertebral stripe is usually absent in C. rosei. The ventral markings consist of white spots ...