Taxon: Genus Poyntonophrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006 (amphibian)

Entity:

Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:	D.R. Frost et al., 2006
Original name	:	Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 297: 221.
Original rank	:	loc. cit.
Original spelling	:	loc. cit.

Named after

J.C. (John) Poynton: South African herpetologist

Types

Type, by original designation	:	*Bufo vertebralis* Smith, 1848		Ref: D.R. Frost et al., 2006: 221. [new]
Type, by original designation	:	*Poyntonophrynus vertebralis* (Smith, 1848)		Ref: D.R. Frost et al., 2006: 221. [new] [implicit]

Synonyms

Synonymous name (objective)

Bufo vertebralis group

Ref: D.R. Frost et al., 2006: 365. [new]