Tomopterna damarensis Dawood and Channing, 2002

Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2), pp. 15-61 : 20

DAMARALAND SAND FROG

Tomopterna damarensis Dawood and Channing, 2002

MATERIAL.— Pediva Hot Springs, 2 December 2013, 16º17ʹ4.62ʺS, 12º33ʹ47.86ʺE, 241 m ( CAS 254855 ) .

COMMENTS.— The specimen was collected by locals on the border of the largest pond at Pediva Springs. The lower jaw is broken, but the specimen is otherwise in good condition. A dark pigmentation is visible along the jaw-line, which identifies the specimen as a male, as is common in the genus. Comparing our specimen to the recently described Tomopterna damarensis Dawood and Channing, 2002 , from Damaraland, northwestern Namibia, it agrees with the smooth dorsum and most important morphological characters. Comparison of 16S mtDNA sequence to the type specimen confirms the identification of this specimen as T. damarensis (GenBank KU662310; p-distance from GenBank AY255091.1, the holotype of T. damarensis , is 0.7 %). Additional details on the distribution of the species in Angola and Namibia are being prepared for publication (M. Heinicke et al., in prep.). This is the first record of the species for the country, extending the range of the species considerably northwards from the type locality at Khorixas, Namibia (Dawood and Channing 2002).