Tomopterna ahli (Deckert, 1938)

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Tomopterna ahli (Deckert, 1938)

Fig. 5 c

Record.

Maylowe [- 13.8342, 13.2767, 803 m] ( UF 190305).

Comments.

Ceríaco et al. (2016) provided the first record of this species for Angola as Tomopterna damarensis Dawood & Channing, 2002 . Heinicke et al. (2017 a) used morphological and mtDNA data to show that this species is broadly distributed in Angola and Namibia and suggested that some records of Tomopterna from southern Angola could correspond to this species. Channing and Becker (2019) showed that Tomopterna ahli was a senior synonym of T. damarensis . All Angolan specimens previously assigned to T. damarensis ( Ceríaco et al. 2016, Heinicke et al. 2017 a; Marques et al. 2018) should thus be referred to as T. ahli .

Figures

Figure 5. a Phrynobatrachus natalensis b Amietia angolensis c Tomopterna ahli d Tomopterna tuberculosa e Kinixys belliana f Stigmochelys pardalis g Afroedura praedicta h Hemidactylus benguellensis. Photographs by AT (a, b, d, h) and LMPC (c, e – g).