Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906

Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, Zootaxa 5028 (1), pp. 1-80 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495309

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906
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Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906 View in CoL

Material (one specimen): One adult female specimen (MHNCUP/ ANF 188 , formerly UP-MHNFCP-018586; Fig. S19 View FIGURE S ), collected from Cambondo [-9.16349º, 14.66432º, 394 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Norte Province, date unknown .

Comments: Arthroleptis carquejai is an Angolan endemic species, found in the northern part of the country ( Marques et al. 2018). The specific epithet carquejai was in honor of Bento Carqueja (1860–1935), a businessman, writer, and professor at APP. The single specimen collected by Newton was used by Ferreira (1906) as the holotype for the species. Ceríaco et al. (2014b) recognized A. carquejai as a valid species belonging to the same group of species as Arthroleptis variabilis Matschie, 1893 . The authors also analyzed specimens from the Zoologisches Museum Hamburg collected from ““Roca Nova” (Roça Novo Mundo)”, approximately 135 km from the type locality, and determined them to also be A. carquejai . The species was recently collected in Serra do Pingano, Uíge Province, by Ceríaco et al. ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ) and Ernst et al. (2020). Marques et al. (2018) suggested that A. carquejai most likely also occurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and possibly Gabon.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Arthroleptidae

Genus

Arthroleptis

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