Sclerophrys pusilla (Mertens, 1937)

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

Sclerophrys pusilla (Mertens, 1937)

Fig. 4 e

Records.

Basecamp 1 [- 13.7770, 13.2591, 1488 m] ( CAS 263036, 263037; INBAC / AMB 10206); vic. N’Dolondolo [- 13.8087, 13.1352, 731 m] ( CAS 263025, 263030); N’Dolondolo [- 13.8133, 13.1362, 593 m] ( UF 187174); Maylowe [- 13.8342, 13.2767, 803 m] ( UF 190289; MUNHAC / MB 04 - 001093); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 820 m] (MUNHAC / MB 04 - 001094).

Comments.

The species has a wide distributional range in central and southern Angola ( Marques et al. 2018). The Angolan population was for some time treated as Sclerophrys maculata (Hallowell, 1854) , until Poynton et al. (2016) established that S. maculata is restricted to West Africa, while S. pusilla is mainly distributed across eastern and southern Africa, including Angola. This species is common in Serra da Neve and its surroundings. It is usually found near leaf litter.

Figures

Figure 4. a, b Xenopus petersii c Poyntonophrynus dombensis d Poyntonophrynus pachnodes e Sclerophrys pusilla f Phrynomantis annectens g Leptopelis anchietae h Phrynobatrachus natalensis. Photographs by AT (a, b, e, g, h); LMPC (c, f) and IA (d).