Ptychadena upembae ( Schmidt and Inger, 1959 ) Upemba Ridged Frog

Conradie, Werner, Keates, Chad, Verburgt, Luke, Baptista, Ninda L. & Harvey, James, 2023, Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango- Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 325) 17 (1), pp. 19-56 : 43

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12761936

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11370936

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/43578788-0025-3F4B-8B3B-602DFE750583

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Ptychadena upembae ( Schmidt and Inger, 1959 ) Upemba Ridged Frog
status

 

Ptychadena upembae ( Schmidt and Inger, 1959) Upemba Ridged Frog View in CoL ( Map 28 View Map 28 )

Material (1 specimen): PEM A14829, camp at side tributary (Luandai River) of the Luanguinga River, -13.70885° 21.26234°, 1,116 m asl. Description: Medium sized Ptychadena ; elongated body; longitudinal dorsal ridges present; long toes; reduced webbing, with up to three phalanges of longest toe free of webbing. Dorsum brown to beige with black and brown spots; black facial mask, from snout through eye to forearm; broad light vertebral band present; thin light line on dorsal tibia; back of thighs with light and dark bands; ventrum light yellow. Only adult male measured 37.7 mm ( PEM A14829). Habitat and natural history notes: Found in grassland alongside a large river during the day. Comments: Identification was based on the key provided by Poynton and Broadley (1985b). Only a few records of this species exist for central and eastern Angola ( Marques et al. 2018). Re-examination of material recorded by Conradie et al. (2016) of Ptychadena guibei also conform to this species.

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Ptychadenidae

Genus

Ptychadena

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF