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Phrynomantis annectens Werner 1910

  • 1. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 1021, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal
  • 2. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 1021, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal
  • 3. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal
  • 4. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
  • 5. Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
  • 6. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661, Vairão, Portugal & Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Vertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Description

Phrynomantis annectens Werner, 1910

Fig. 4 f

Records.

N’Dolondolo [- 13.8004, 13.1362, 897 m] (UF 187250, 187251; INBAC / AMB 10344); Maylowe [- 13.8342, 13.2767, 803 m] (UF 190275).

Comments.

Endemic to southwestern Africa from southwestern Angola southwards through Namibia to the arid regions of northern South Africa (Marques et al. 2018; Channing and Rödel 2019). In Angola, P. annectens is restricted to the coastal lowlands of the country (Marques et al. 2018). The species is frequently associated with inselbergs and other rocky outcrops in arid regions (Channing 2001; Channing and Rödel 2019). Our specimens were found inside crevices at the base of Serra da Neve. Ceríaco et al. (2021) discussed the taxonomic and nomenclatural history of P. annectens and provided an additional record for the country.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 167-217 in ZooKeys 1201 on pages 167-217, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

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References

  • Marques MP, Ceríaco LMP, Blackburn DC, Bauer AM (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 4 (65, Supplement II): 1 – 501.
  • Channing A, Rödel M-O (2019) Field guide to the frogs and other amphibians of Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, 408 pp.
  • Channing A (2001) Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 470 pp. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733697
  • Ceríaco LMP, Santos B, Marques MP, Bauer AM, Tiutenko A (2021) Citizen Science medias meets specimens in old formalin filled jars: A new species of Banded Rubber Frog, genus Phrynomantis (Anura: Mycrohylidae) from Angola. Alytes 38 (1 – 4): 18 – 48.