Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection
Author
Santos, Bruna S.
Author
Marques, Mariana P.
0000-0002-1712-2632
mptlmarques@gmail.com
Author
Bauer, Aaron M.
0000-0001-6839-8025
aaron.bauer@villanova.edu
Author
Ceríaco, Luis M. P.
0000-0002-3798-2664
brunascesantos@gmail.com
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-03
5028
1
1
80
http://zoobank.org/c678f0fe-1b62-4f34-8a66-449cf9806b50
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1
1175-5326
5453967
C678F0FE-1B62-4F34-8A66-449CF9806B50
Phrynobatrachus
cf.
natalensis
(Smith, 1849)
Material (
three specimens
):
Two adult specimens (MHNCUP/
ANF
312–313, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017321;
Fig. S24
), collected from unknown locality, date unknown;
one adult
specimen (MHNCUP/
ANF 314
, formerly UP- MHNFCP-017343), collected from unknown locality, date unknown
.
Comments:
Populations referred to as
P.
cf.
natalensis
have been cited from across sub-Saharan Africa and are well widespread in
Angola
(
Marques
et al.
2018
). Despite that,
Marques
et al.
(2018)
noted that those records most likely correspond to several undescribed species.
Zimkus
et al.
(2010)
, in a molecular phylogenetic analysis, showed that
P. natalensis
is a species complex and recovered five different clades.
Ferreira (1904)
cited an adult specimen from “Catete” (the only citation for the locality), and an unspecified number of specimens from unknown location (
Ferreira 1906
). One of specimens MHNCUP/ANF 312–314 might correspond to the one cited from “Catete”.