Amietia angolensis ( Bocage, 1866 )

Conradie, Werner, Bills, Roger & Branch, William R., 2016, The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 126) 10 (2), pp. 6-36 : 18-19

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13154851
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13159204
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scientific name	Amietia angolensis ( Bocage, 1866 )
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Amietia angolensis ( Bocage, 1866) View in CoL

Angolan River Frog

Material: PEM A10311 (11), 10313 (12a), 10317‒10318 (12a), and 10375 (22d); PEM T 552 (11) and 553 (4); SAIAB 187112 (12a), 187402 (18), 187411 (14), 187413 (3), 187424 (13), 200499 (18), 200500 (12a), and 200503 (13).

Comment: Common and widespread in Angola ( Bocage 1866, 1895; Boulenger 1905; Ferreira 1906; Parker 1936; Schmidt 1936; Mertens 1938; Monard 1937a; Laurent 1950, 1954, 1964; Hellmich 1954; Poynton and Haacke 1993; Ruas 1996). A recent revision ( Channing and Baptista 2013) restricted A. angolensis to Angola, albeit that few Angolan samples were available for analysis. Subsequently, Larson et al. (2016) identified several well-supported cryptic lineages of river frogs previously assigned to Amietia angolensis in the Albertine Rift region. It is, therefore, possible that cryptic taxa of A. angolensis also occur in Angola, and that A. angolensis may also extend into adjacent western Zambia.