PIPIDAE, Gray, 1825

Krysko, Kenneth L., Burgess, Joseph P., Rochford, Michael R., Gillette, Christopher R., Cueva, Daniel, Enge, Kevin M., Somma, Louis A., Stabile, Jennifer L., Smith, Dustin C., Wasilewski, Joseph A., Kieckhefer Iii, Guy N., Granatosky, Michael C. & Nielsen, Stuart V., 2011, 3028, Zootaxa 3028, pp. 1-64 : 21

PIPIDAE

The African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis ( Daudin 1802b) , is indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, including the countries of Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Congo, southwestern Kenya, eastern Nigeria, Zambia, Angola, Malawi, Tanzania, Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Cameroon, and Gabon (Tinsley et al. 1996; Poynton 1999; Channing 2001). This species has been introduced, often with established populations, to non-indigenous regions throughout the world, including Japan, Ascension Island, and a wide variety of localities on the continents of Europe, South America, and North America ( Tinsley & McCoid 1996; Kraus 2009). In 1964, ca. 200 X. laevis were intentionally released into Hialeah (Red Road) Canal, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, Florida, by an animal importer (King & Krakauer 1966), but no voucher was deposited. An additional Florida report includes a single X. laevis found near Tampa, Hillsborough County, but no date of collection or voucher was mentioned ( Tinsley & McCoid 1996). On 27 June 2010 at 1430 h, MCG collected an adult (63.6 mm SVL) X. laevis (UF 158477; MorphoBank M88444 ; Fig. 8) while dip-netting in a retention pond on Knox McRae Drive, 0.08 km east of Sussana Lane, Titusville, Brevard County (28.57232 o N, - 80.83237 o W). This species likely was released or had escaped (stage 2) from an enclosure. This represents the first known voucher for this family and species in Florida.