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De Wittes Clicking Frog (
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Material (
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Additional material (
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P2-278, P2-279, P2-280, P2-281, wetland near old quarry east of Quemba, -12.16960° 18.22965°,
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Minute hyperoliid species. See
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for a detailed description of this material. The only female measured
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Found in flooded grassland and peat wetlands.
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The occurrence of this species in northeastern
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was expected from a biogeographical point of view, but these are the first records of the species for the country. These new records extend the known range of this species from northwestern
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and southern
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to central
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by more than
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(see
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). The taxonomic status of this genus has recently been validated phylogenetically and the species is considered to be closely related to
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,
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although its exact systematic placement remains unclear (see
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;
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).
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<emphasis id="F98AEA8C00293F468B3B61A2FCAE039B" bold="true" box="[791,870,1416,1438]" pageId="20" pageNumber="39">Fig. 24.</emphasis>
Adult male
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from Cuanavale River source.
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.
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<emphasis id="F98AEA8C00293F468B3B635FFCAD018C" bold="true" box="[791,869,1909,1931]" pageId="20" pageNumber="39">Fig. 25.</emphasis>
Adult male
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cf.
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from wetland east of Quemba town.
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.
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<emphasis id="F98AEA8C00293F4688A163A4FF2A01A5" bold="true" box="[141,226,1934,1955]" pageId="20" pageNumber="39">Map 21.</emphasis>
Distribution of
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in Angola.
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(
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A14270,
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A14285) differ in the dorsal coloration pattern (vertebral band broken and no darker stipples in lighter bands versus continuous dark vertebral band and lighter bands, with fine dark stipples), maximum size (
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versus
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), and potential differences in habitat preference from other
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collected. These
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are similar in appearance to a specimen collected from Congolo River, Luando Strict Nature Reserve (
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091) (see
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). While
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pointed out the relatively deep divergence between the specimen from Congolo River and the eastern Angolan and topotypic
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samples, this difference was not considered in
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. Preliminary unpublished genetic results (W. Conradie, unpub. data) show that the
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listed here agree genetically with the western Angolan sample (Congolo River) and may represent an undescribed cryptic species. These specimens occur syntopically with typical
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east of Quemba, although collected from different habitats and different times of the year.
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