Xenopus (Xenopus) allofraseri Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias and Blackburn, 2015

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Material. ANGOLA – Cabinda Province • Mayombe NP, Sanga Wanda; –4.6253, 12.4583; 221 m a.s.l.; P3.121, FKH 1231; GenBank: PQ455958–59 .

Identification. A medium-sized (SVL = 38–48 mm) flattened frog with four claws on the feet and smooth skin on the head and dorsum. As with several other members of the group, this species can only be distinguished based on molecular data, calls and subtle morphological features (Evans et al. 2015). Material from Cabinda Province differs by 0.6% (16S p -distance) from the type material from Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (GenBank: KT728120 –28) and is identical to material from Bas-Congo Province, DRC (GenBank: KT728112) ascribed to this species.

Biology and distribution. An aquatic species widely distributed in forested areas in the Gulf of Guinea from Cameroon to Cabinda Province (Baptista2024). These records represent the first records of the species in Angola (Baptista 2024), and the southernmost for the species. The specimens reported here were collected at night in a small pond on a dirt road after a rainstorm, in primary rainforest in Lower Mayombe. The species was found in sympatry with X. andrei .