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We examined nine tadpoles from several sites on Mount Manengouba and the South-West Province of
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: ZMB 78452 (four tadpoles, Gosner stages 2526, Ebonemin,
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); ZMB 78453 (one tadpole, Gosner stage 26, Nkikoh,
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); ZMB 78457 (one tadpole Gosner stage 25, Pola,
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); ZMB 78458 (two tadpoles, Gosner stages 2526, Pola,
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); ZMB 78461 (one tadpole, Gosner stage 35, Fotabong,
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). The tadpoles were all found in small to medium-sized streams with farmbush vegetation on river banks (
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). They inhabited slowflowing parts of fast flowing streams with rapids in
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The description of
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is predominantely based on three (ZMB 78452, 78453, 78458) genotyped individuals of Gosner stage 26. Body length/total length ratio and description of tail tips was based on nongenotyped specimens of the same developmental stage.
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Long slender tadpole with narrow and long muscular tail; body elliptical in dorsal view, slightly depressed in lateral view (
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a, b); body shape in lateral view either slightly convex, extending level of tail axis (
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a) or flat, in line with tail axis (
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Channing
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); body length 28.1 ± 2.1% (N= 7) of total length; body height 42.6 ± 4.2% (N= 3) of body length; body width 54.0 ± 4.3% (N= 3) of body length; maximum body width on the level of spiracle insertion; snout nearly rounded to truncate in dorsal view; nostrils oval, positioned laterally, opening slightly pointed ventrally; nostrils equidistant from eye and snout tip; eye diameter 13.1 ± 1.8% (N= 3) of body length; inter-orbital distance slightly exceeds inter-nostril distance; tail fins narrow; dorsal fin originating posterior to tail base (1.7 ±
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; N= 3; Fig.
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and ZMB 78461: at level with tail base), equal to slightly deeper than ventral fin, reaching deepest point at about mid-tail, fin edge almost parallel to tail axis; ventral fin originating on level with tail base, narrow and almost parallel to tail axis; tail axis muscular, only slowly converging towards tail tip; tail tip rounded; body height 78.1100% (N= 3; flatter individuals possibly due to preservation artifact) of total tail height; maximum height of tail axis 62.575.0% (N= 3) of total tail height; vent tube dextral; lateral sacs present, extending from spiracle to end of body, covering lower two thirds of flanks; short spiracle, sinistral, translucent, opening lateral, not visible in dorsal view, originating slightly posterior to midbody; mouth opening frontal; labial tooth formula 0/0; both jaw sheaths fully keratinized and of narrow almost rectangular shape; upper jaw distinctly serrated, serrations uniform; lower jaw U-shaped, serrated, lateral pair of caniniform projections (“fangs”;
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d), median part with six to seven needle-like cusps (
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Channing
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2012
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: 8); three distinct serrations abaxial to fangs; large almost semicircular posterior lip covered with 20 papillae; papillae symmetrically arranged along body axis; most papillae arranged in two semicircular rows, one near the lower jaw sheath, the second closer to posterior margin of lower lip (
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c); almost straight skin fold on lower lip, just posterior to lower jaw sheath; oral disc width 33.945.4% (N= 3) of body length; mouth width 22.233.3% (N= 3) of oral disc width.
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBFAC25240FEF3F86E" bold="true" box="[151,276,1907,1929]" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Adult
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBFB0E5240FDE2F86F" box="[347,517,1907,1929]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">Leptodactylodon</emphasis>
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; a:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBF8785247FD75F86F" box="[557,658,1907,1929]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. bicolor</emphasis>
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(ZMB 77489); b:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBF9055247FC3FF86F" box="[848,984,1907,1929]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. boulengeri</emphasis>
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(ZMB 79588); c:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBFEC35247FADCF86F" box="[1174,1339,1907,1929]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. erythrogaster</emphasis>
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(voucher not collected); d:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBFB1B52A1FE26F841" box="[334,449,1938,1959]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. mertensi</emphasis>
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(ZMB 77500); e:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBF8D752A1FCA7F841" box="[642,832,1938,1959]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. ornatus ornatus</emphasis>
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(ZMB 78528); f:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBF9AB52A1FB21F841" box="[1022,1222,1937,1959]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. ovatus orientalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(ZMB 78536); g:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBFFD252A1FF3CF820" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. perreti</emphasis>
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(BMNH 2008.304); h:
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF85FFEBFB875282FD41F820" box="[466,678,1969,1990]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="33">L. ventrimarmoratus</emphasis>
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(BMNH 2008.469) (see Appendix 1 for origin of adults used in barcode comparisons).
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF84FFEAFAC256E6FEF2FC0C" bold="true" box="[151,277,981,1003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="34">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
Dorsal (a) and lateral view (b) of
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF84FFEAF8D456E7FC9CFC0C" box="[641,891,980,1002]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="34">Leptodactylodon bicolor</emphasis>
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, fin tips added from morphologically corresponding individuals, sketches of the mouthpart in frontal view (c) and jaw sheaths with caniniform projections (d); scale bars: 1 mm.
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The largest tadpole at Gosner stage 25 (ZMB 78462) measured
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total length (body length:
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; tail length:
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). The most developed individual (ZMB 78461, Gosner stage 35) measured
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total length (body length:
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; tail length:
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).
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reports tailed metamorphs measuring
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SVL.
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF84FFEAFA92501FFDEDFAA3" bold="true" box="[199,522,1324,1349]" pageId="5" pageNumber="34">Coloration in preservation.</emphasis>
Dorsal body parts and tail axis irregularly speckled dark brown on brown ground; mottling on tail axis strong, less pattern towards tail tip; anterior part of tail with longitudinal black line; ventrum clearer with very little dark speckling; dorsal fin brownish with darker spots or translucent; ventral fin predominantly translucent cream-white with few darker spots.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF84FFEAFA92508FFE46FA33" bold="true" box="[199,417,1468,1493]" pageId="5" pageNumber="34">Coloration in life.</emphasis>
Light brown with dark brown speckling, some dots being lighter; venter light grayishreddish; dark intestinal loops shining through skin; some individuals with cream-white snout.
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