Phrynobatrachus natalensis (Smith, 1849)

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

Phrynobatrachus natalensis (Smith, 1849)

Specimens.

Angola: Duque de Bragança : BMNH 1864.10.28.6 –9 .

Comments.

The four specimens were collected by Bayão in 1864 and presented to the British Museum in the same year. Bocage tentatively referred them to the genus Stenorhynchus ( NHMA /DF/GüntherColl/16/1/106 ), while Günther wrote that they “ cannot be determined without other specimens ” ( AHMB /CE/G76 ). Although the specimen label attached to one of the specimens is completely faded, these most certainly correspond to No. 8 of Bocage’s first shipment of Angolan specimens ( AHMB /CE/G76 , NHMA /DF/GüntherColl/16/1/104 , 106) and were cited by Günther (1865 a) and Boulenger (1882 b).