Ptychadena bunoderma
Authors/Creators
- 1. National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, SOUTH AFRICA & Department of Nature Conservation Management, Natural Resource Science and Management Cluster, Faculty of Science, George Campus, Nelson Mandela University, George, SOUTH AFRICA & Port Elizabeth Museum, Beach Road, Humewood, Port Elizabeth 6013, SOUTH AFRICA
- 2. South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), Makhanda, SOUTH AFRICA & National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, SOUTH AFRICA & Department of Nature Conservation Management, Natural Resource Science and Management Cluster, Faculty of Science, George Campus, Nelson Mandela University, George, SOUTH AFRICA
- 3. Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0001, SOUTH AFRICA & Enviro-Insight CC, Unit 8 Oppidraai Office Park, Pretoria 0050, SOUTH AFRICA & National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, SOUTH AFRICA
- 4. Museum für Naturkunde-Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, GERMANY & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão, PORTUGAL & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169 - 007, Porto, PORTUGAL & CIBIO / InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485 - 661 Vairão, PORTUGAL & Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla (ISCED), Rua Sarmento Rodrigues, Lubango, ANGOLA & National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, SOUTH AFRICA
- 5. Harvey Ecological, 41 Devonshire Avenue, Howick, 3290, SOUTH AFRICA & National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, SOUTH AFRICA
Description
Ptychadena bunoderma (Boulenger, 1907)
Rough Ridged Frog (Fig. 29; Map 26)
Material (2 specimens): PEM A12778, Quembo River source, trap 4, -13.13586° 19.04709°, 1,369 m asl; PEM A12476, Cuanavale River source lake, -13.08537° 18.89100°, 1,360 m asl. Description: Small stocky Ptychadena; dorsum warty, with no clear ridges as in other Ptychadena species; short stubby legs; very reduced webbing, four phalanges of the 4 th toe free of webbing. Dorsum dark brown to olive, with scattered white to brown elevated tubercles; lower lip gray with white bars; back of thighs with scattered light spots. The only adult male measured 25.6 mm (PEM A12778). Habitat and natural history notes: Specimens were found in trap arrays (see Conradie et al. 2021) set up next to flooded areas of source lakes. They were never heard calling, and either have a very cryptic call or were not vocal during the survey periods. Comments: In Angola, this species is only known from the east, based on historical records (Marques et al. 2018). No new collections were made until Ernst et al. (2020) recorded a series of specimens from northwestern Angola. Elsewhere, it is known from northwestern Zambia (Channing 2001; Channing and Rödel 2019). Our new material represents a new record for southeastern Angola and the Okavango River basin.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Boulenger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Ptychadenidae
- Genus
- Ptychadena
- Species
- bunoderma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ptychadena bunoderma (Boulenger, 1907) sec. Conradie, Keates, Verburgt, Baptista & Harvey, 2023
References
- Conradie W, Baptista NL, Verburgt L, Keates C, Harvey J, Julio T, Neef G. 2021. Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando- Zambezi river drainages. Part 1: Serpentes (snakes). Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 15 (2) [General Section]: 244 - 278 (e 292).
- Marques MP, Ceriaco 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 Series 4 65 (Supplement II): 1 - 501.
- Channing A. 2001. Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, USA. 470 p.
- Channing A, Rodel M-O. 2019. Field Guide to the Frogs and Other Amphibians of Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, South Africa. 408 p.