Xenopus petersii Bocage, 1895

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Xenopus petersii Bocage, 1895

Fig. 4 a, b

Records.

Catchi, small stream near basecamp [- 13.7630, 13.2513, 1595 m] (MUNHAC / MB 04 - 001066); Maylowe, inside a well [- 13.8349, 13.2765, 803 m] (MUNHAC / MB 04 - 001067 - 001091).

Comments.

Traditionally considered as a subspecies of Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802) , Furman et al. (2015) reclassified all central and western Angolan populations as X. petersii . Frétey et al. (2018) designated as lectotype of the species a specimen collected by José d’Anchieta in Benguela Province, Angola. This species is known from several localities in southwestern regions of the country (see Marques et al. 2018) and the Serra da Neve population is within the expected distribution range of X. petersii in the province.

Figures

Figure 4. a, b Xenopus petersii c Poyntonophrynus dombensis d Poyntonophrynus pachnodes e Sclerophrys pusilla f Phrynomantis annectens g Leptopelis anchietae h Phrynobatrachus natalensis. Photographs by AT (a, b, e, g, h); LMPC (c, f) and IA (d).