Phrynobatrachus sp. 1

Bittencourt-Silva Keywords., Gabriela B., 2019, A herpetological survey of western Zambia, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 181) 13 (2), pp. 1-28 : 9

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Material. ITEZHI-TEZHI: BMNH 2018.5848– 50; LIVINGSTONE: BMNH 2018.5853–54;

MAYUKUYUKU: BMNH 2018.5837–38 ( Fig. 6B View Fig ), BMNH 2018.5839–42 ( Fig. 6C View Fig ), BMNH 2018.5843, BMNH 2018.5844–47; NANZILA PLAINS: BMNH 2018.5851–52. Comments: Specimens were found in dambo s.OnejuvenilewasfoundonabeachoftheZambezi River at Ngonye Falls. The closest match on GenBank (99% sequence similarity) is P. natalensis DQ 283414 from Tanzania (see Fig. 5 View Fig ). Zimkus and Schick (2010) suggest that there are two species of P. natalensis in East Africa, and these Zambian populations are more similar to the central and southern populations corresponding to Haplotype group B. It further corresponds to Zimkus et al. (2010) P. natalensis Clade E. See further comments in Discussion.

Phrynobatrachus sp. 2 Material. NGONYE FALLS: BMNH 2018.5836; SIOMA NGWEZI NP: BMNH 2018.5864–65. Comments: Morphologically, these specimens resemble P. natalensis in terms of size, toe webbing and overall color pattern. However, they present silver/white spots around the vent (and ventral part of the thigh in BMNH 2018.5836). The closest match on GenBank is P. natalensis from Tanzania (95%; DQ 283414). Although their range overlaps with the Southern African geographic zone (populations A and B) in Zimkus et al. (2010), these populations form a southern Zambian clade, which is a sister group of the eastern and western African clades (see Fig. 5 View Fig ). These findings allude to further cryptic diversity in the group.

References

Zimkus BM, Schick S. 2010. Light at the end of the tunnel: insights into the molecular systematics of East African puddle frogs (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 8: 39 - 47.

Figures

Fig. 6. Amphibians of western Zambia. (A) Phrynobatrachus cf. parvulus (BMNH 2018.5889), (B) Phrynobatrachus natalensis (BMNH 2018.5838), (C) Phrynobatrachus natalensis (BMNH 2018.5842), (D) Phrynobatrachus sp. 1 (BMNH 2018.5867), (E) Phrynobatrachus sp. 1 (BMNH 2018.5861), (F) Phrynobatrachus sp. 1 (BMNH 2018.5869), (G) Xenopus poweri (BMNH 2018.5659), (H) Xenopus pygmaeus, (I) Ptychadena anchietae (BMNH 2018.5730), (J) Ptychadena cf. mossambica (BMNH 2018.5759), (K) Ptychadena porosissima (BMNH 2018.5766), (L) Ptychadena porosissima (BMNH 2018.5769), (M) Ptychadena porosissima (BMNH 2018.5770), (N) Ptychadena taenioscelis (BMNH 2018.5785), (O) Amietia chapini (BMNH 2018.5664), (P) Pyxicephalus cf. adspersus (BMNH 2018.5791), (Q) Tomopterna sp. (BMNH 2018.5797), (R) Chiromantis xerampelina (BMNH 2018.5798).

Fig. 5. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree inferred from nucleotide sequence data from mitochondrial 16S rRNA of Phrynobatrachus natalensis. Numbers above branches are non-parametric bootstrap support values.Specimen vouchers or GenBank accession numbers are shown in parentheses. Colored polygons highlight the clades comprising specimens from this study. (*) Nearest sample from type locality of Phrynobatrachus natalensis; (**) Haplotype groups A and B in Zimkus and Schick (2010).