Ptychadena porosissima ( Steindachner, 1867 )

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

Ptychadena porosissima ( Steindachner, 1867)

Specimens.

Angola: Duque de Bragança : BMNH 1864.10.28.4 –5 .

Comments.

Two additional Ptychadena specimens (No. 5) were included in the 1864 shipment from Duque de Bragança, tentatively identified as “ R. Bibroni Hallowel? ” [sic] by Bocage ( NHMA /DF/GüntherColl/16/1/106 ) and referred to Rana mascaraniensis by Günther ( AHMB /CE/G76 ). Boulenger (1882 b) cited three specimens of Rana mascaraniensis sent by Bocage, although we found no indication of additional Ptychadena specimens. The specimens were eventually associated with Rana mascaraniensis var. mossambica , until they were examined and identified as Ptychadena porosissima by John Poynton (1931 –) in 1990. Although the species was described by Steindachner (1867) based on a specimen from “ Angola ” sent by Bocage to the Naturhistorische Museum in Wien, it most likely was part of the same material collected by Bayão at Duque de Bragança.