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Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira 1906

Description

Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906

Material (one specimen): One adult female specimen (MHNCUP/ ANF 188, formerly UP-MHNFCP-018586; Fig. S19), collected from Cambondo [-9.16349º, 14.66432º, 394 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Norte Province, date unknown.

Comments: Arthroleptis carquejai is an Angolan endemic species, found in the northern part of the country (Marques et al. 2018). The specific epithet carquejai was in honor of Bento Carqueja (1860–1935), a businessman, writer, and professor at APP. The single specimen collected by Newton was used by Ferreira (1906) as the holotype for the species. Ceríaco et al. (2014b) recognized A. carquejai as a valid species belonging to the same group of species as Arthroleptis variabilis Matschie, 1893. The authors also analyzed specimens from the Zoologisches Museum Hamburg collected from ““Roca Nova” (Roça Novo Mundo)”, approximately 135 km from the type locality, and determined them to also be A. carquejai. The species was recently collected in Serra do Pingano, Uíge Province, by Ceríaco et al. (Fig. 4) and Ernst et al. (2020). Marques et al. (2018) suggested that A. carquejai most likely also occurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and possibly Gabon.

Notes

Published as part of Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton's Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5028 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5453967

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ANF
Material sample ID
ANF 188
Scientific name authorship
Ferreira
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Arthroleptidae
Genus
Arthroleptis
Species
carquejai
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906 sec. Santos, Marques, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2021

References

  • Ferreira, J. B. (1906) Algumas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de amphibios e reptis de Angola (Coleccao Newton - 1903 - 1904). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 7 (26), 159 - 171.
  • Marques, M. P., Ceriaco, L. M. P., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M. (2018) Diversity and distribution of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles of Angola atlas of historical and bibliographic records (1840 - 2017). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 65 (Supplement 2), 1 - 501.
  • Ceriaco, L. M. P., Blackburn, D. C. Marques, M. P. & Calado, F. M. (2014 b) Catalogue of the amphibian and reptile type specimens of the Museu de Historia Natural da Universidade do Porto in Portugal, with some comments on problematic taxa. Alytes, 31, 13 - 36.