Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango- Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians Author Conradie, Werner 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 Author Keates, Chad 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 Author Verburgt, Luke 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 Author Baptista, Ninda L. 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 Author Harvey, James Harvey Ecological, 41 Devonshire Avenue, Howick, 3290, SOUTH AFRICA & National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, SOUTH AFRICA text Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 2023 e 325 2023-08-04 17 1 19 56 journal article 297340 10.5281/zenodo.12761936 5e6c8fd8-74a8-4de2-8687-29b4ea71fac1 1525-9153 12761936 Hemisus guineensis Cope, 1865 Guinea Shovel-snouted Frog ( Fig. 11 ; Map 10 ) Material ( 6 specimens ): PEM A14955, Cuando River, CUD2018 AC Camp 27, -16.09006° 21.83947°, 1,038 m asl; PEM A14832–3, INBAC : WC-6948, Lake Hundo, -14.97431° 21.62966°, 1,100 m asl; PEM A13831, Cuando River, camp 18, -14.66105° 20.16858°, 1,124 m asl; PEM A12771, Cuando River Source, trap 3, -13.00334° 19.13564°, 1,360 m asl. Additional material (1 tadpole lot): SAIAB 209095 (7 tadpoles), small wooden bridge across wetland on road between Cuanavale River source camp and Munhango, -12.30714° 18.62333°, 1,397 m asl. Description: Small to medium sized frog; hardened pointed snout; small eyes; tympanum hidden; smooth dorsum (except PEM A12771, in which the yellow spots are slightly elevated); transverse skin ridge between posterior corners of eye, extending behind eye to above the arm; reduced webbing; large inner metatarsal and outer metacarpal tubercles. Grey dorsum with yellow mottling or spots; yellow vertebral stripe present; ventrum granular, with small irregular spots. Males with dark throats. Adult females (n = 3) varied from 40.5–49.2 (43.4) mm (largest female: PEM A12771); adult males (n = 3) varied from 26.7–31.6 (29.8) mm (largest male: PEM A14955). Habitat and natural history notes: No calls were heard. Specimens were either caught in traps or by hand while they were active at night after heavy rains in November, near open grassland and pans. One female ( PEM A13831) collected in November was gravid. Comments: Laurent (1972) assigned all Angolan material he examined to the subspecies H. guineensis microps , and this was followed by Ruas (1996) . However, Channing (2001) and Marques et al. (2018) documented two species of Hemisus occuring in Angola , Hemisus guineensis in the north and H. marmoratus in the south-central region. We follow Laurent (1972) and assign all Angolan material to Hemisus guineensis until an in-depth phylogenetic work is conducted to assess the taxonomic status of the available material.