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A biochemical genetic comparison of four populations of Breviceps adspersus (Anura: Microhylidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: G.D. Engelbrecht --- Department of Physiology, South Africa P.F.S. Mulder --- Department of Physiology, South AfricaFour populations of the bushveld rain frog, Breviceps adspersus, representing three northern populations (B. adspersus adspersus), and a southern population (B. adspersus pentheri), were analysed by electrophoresis to assess the extent of genetic variation and differentiation amongst them. Eighteen protein-coding... -
Osteology of the ranoid burrowing African anurans Breviceps and Hemisus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: D.E. van Dijk --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaTo facilitate classification of isolated fossil bones, one genus of each of ten anuran African families was chosen, and criteria were sought (with two or more character states) which could be used to indicate the presence of a genus or... -
An early Pliocene (5.1 Ma) fossil frog community from Langebaanweg, south-western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Thalassa Matthews --- , South Africa Eduard van Dijk --- , South Africa Dave L. Roberts --- , South Africa Roger M.H. Smith --- , South AfricaThe 5.1 million year old fossil site of Langebaanweg (LBW) has provided a wealth of information on the evolution of west coast ecosystems along the southern west coast of South Africa and numerous taxa, including small and large mammals, and... -
Species-specific or assemblage-wide decline? The case of Arthroleptides dutoiti Loveridge, 1935 and the amphibian assemblage of Mount Elgon, Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Jacob M Ngwava --- National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Christopher D Barratt --- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany Elizabeth Boakes --- University College London, United Kingdom Beryl A Bwong --- National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Alan Channing --- North-West University, South Africa Olivia Couchman --- Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom Stefan Lötters --- Trier University, Germany Patrick K Malonza --- National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Vincent Muchai --- National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Julius K Nguku --- National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Joash Nyamache --- National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Nisha Owen --- On the EDGE Conservation, United Kingdom Victor Wasonga --- National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Simon P Loader --- Natural History Museum, United KingdomThe frog Arthroleptides dutoiti Loveridge, 1935, endemic to Mount Elgon, East Africa was last collected in 1962 and has not been observed since. The species is regarded as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List and is a priority species... -
Foam‐nest treefrogs in eastern Africa (Anura Rhacophoridae Chiromantis): Taxonomic complexities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: JohnC. Poynton --- Natural History Museum, UKParker's (1932) relegation of Chiromantis kelleri to subspecific status as C. petersii kelleri is investigated. Examination of the holotypes of C. petersii and C. kelleri shows subspecific status for these taxa to be inappropriate. Available data leave an open question... -
Anurans in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania: Comparison between miombo woodland, evergreen forest and teak plantations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Roy Hinde --- Society for Environmental Exploration, United Kingdom Graham Corti --- Society for Environmental Exploration, United Kingdom Eibleis Fanning --- Society for Environmental Exploration, United Kingdom RichardK.B. Jenkins --- Society for Environmental Exploration, United Kingdom -
A new stream frog from Tanzania (Anura: Ranidae: Strongylopus)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Alan Channing --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa TimR. B. Davenport --- Wildlife Conservation Society, TanzaniaA new species of stream frog in the genus Strongylopus is described from Kitumbeine Forest, situated on an isolated extinct volcano in northern Tanzania. This species is distinguished from S. merumontanus in Tanzania on the basis of a larger tympanum,... -
Two new cryptic species of breviceps (Anura: Microhylidae) from Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: LeslieR. Minter --- University of the North, South AfricaBreviceps sopranus sp. nov. and Breviceps bagginsi sp. nov. are described and distinguished from other sympatric Breviceps spp. by the structure of their advertisement calls: a long, unpulsed, high‐pitched whistle in the former, and a high‐pitched trill of moderate length... -
A new giant species of Arthroleptis (Amphibia: Anura) from the Rubeho Mountains, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: JohnC. Poynton --- The Natural History Museum, UKTwo giant specimens of Arthroleptis attaining a snout‐vent length of 57 mm, from the Rubeho Mountains in southern Tanzania are described as a new species. They are distinguished from the giant species A. tanneri of the West Usambara Mountains by... -
A new sand frog from central Tanzania (Anura: Ranidae: Tomopterna)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Alan Channing --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa DavidC. Moyer --- Wildlife Conservation Society, Tanzania Abeda Dawood --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaA new species of sand frog in the genus Tomopterna is described from the highlands of south‐central Tanzania. It is distinguished from the other three species of sand frogs in East Africa on the basis of a low‐pitched advertisement call,... -
A new species of stream frog, genus Strongylopus (Anura: Ranidae) from Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, with comments on a ‘northern volcanic mountains group’ within the genus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: BarryT. Clarke --- The Natural History Museum, England JohnC. Poynton --- The Natural History Museum, EnglandA new species of Stream frog, genus Strongylopus, is described. The new species is similar to its northern Tanzanian congener S. kitumbeine, but may be distinguished from that species by its facial markings, smaller tympanum, minor differences in head and... -
A new cryptic Dainty Frog from East Africa (Anura: Ranidae: Cacosternum)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Alan Channing --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Caroline Brun --- Neuroscience Research Building 1, USA Marius Burger --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Severine Febvre --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa David Moyer --- Wildlife Conservation Society, TanzaniaWe describe a new species of dainty frog in the genus Cacosternum (Ranidae) from East Africa. It is similar morphologically to Cacosternum boettgeri from the interior of southern Africa, and is distinguished on the basis of an advertisement call with... -
Bufo uzunguensis of southern Tanzania (Amphibia: Anura): A history of confusion
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: JohnC. Poynton --- The Natural History Museum, UK Michele Menegon --- Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Italy Sebastiano Salvidio --- DIP.TE.RIS Corso Europa 26, ItalyType and more recently‐collected material of Bufo uzunguensis Loveridge, is compared with members of the "B. lonnbergi complex” of east African highland dwarf toads. It is concluded that B. uzunguensis is not a member of this complex despite many similarities... -
Distribution patterns of amphibians from the Kakamega forest, Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Susanne Schick --- Mainz University, Germany Michael Veith --- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stefan Lötters --- University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsWe discuss generalized geographical range patterns for the 24 anuran species that occur in the Kakamega Forest, western Kenya. Eight distributions are distinguished: from “western Equatorial Rift Valley” to almost entire sub‐Saharan. The former may be more common than previously... -
Rediscovery and identity of Phrynobatrachus monticola Fischer, 1884
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark‐Oliver Rödel --- Biocenter of the University, Germany Jakob Hallermann --- University of Hamburg, GermanyWe report on the rediscovery of the type specimen of Phrynobatrachus monticola Fischer, 1884 and clarify its real taxonomic position within the sub‐Saharan ranid genus Tomopterna. We redescribe the type and compare it to the other four currently recognized East... -
Hiding in plain sight: Another cryptic dainty frog from the highlands of Kenya (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Cacosternum)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Alan Channing --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Andreas Schmitz --- Muséum d'histoire naturelle, SwitzerlandA new species of dainty frog from the Kinangop Plateau in Kenya is described. It is geographically close to Cacosternum plimptoni, from which it is difficult to separate on morphology. It is significantly different from other East African species on... -
Revalidation of Phrynobatrachus maculiventris Guibé & Lamotte, 1958 and description of its aposematic coloured tadpole
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark‐Oliver Rödel --- Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Laura Sandberger --- Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Néma‐Soua Loua --- Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée, Republic of Guinea Joseph Doumbia --- Université de Conakry, Annika Hillers --- Humboldt University Berlin, GermanyPhrynobatrachus maculiventris Guibé & Lamotte, 1958 is a valid species. Herein we clarify its taxonomic status, re‐describe it, and provide the first description of its tadpole. The tadpoles’ specific identity was assessed through DNA barcoding. Phrynobatrachus maculiventris adults differ from... -
A new puddle frog (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus) from the Mambilla Plateau in eastern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: DavidC. Blackburn --- University of Kansas, USAA new species of puddle frog (Phrynobatrachus) is described from the Kurmin Danko Forest Reserve on the western edge of the Mambilla Plateau in eastern Nigeria. The new species is distinguished from both geographically proximate and closely related Phrynobatrachus species... -
Small, specialised and highly mobile? The tree-hole breeding frog, Phrynobatrachus guineensis, lacks fine-scale population structure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Laura Sandberger --- Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Heike Feldhaar --- University of Osnabrück, Germany KathrinP. Lampert --- University of Bochum, Germany DunjaK. Lamatsch --- Austrian Academy of Sciences and Institute for Limnology, Austria Mark-Oliver Rödel --- Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, GermanyData on population dynamics and distribution are of primary interest to biologists because they reveal information about the species' ecology and evolution and are thus essential for conservation efforts. Patchily distributed species are especially interesting for conservation studies, because of... -
Two syntopic and microendemic new frogs of the genus Blommersia from the east coast of Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Miguel Vences --- Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Jörn Köhler --- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Germany Maciej Pabijan --- Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Frank Glaw --- Zoologische Staatssammlung, GermanyWe describe two new species of semiarboreal frogs from the northern central east coast of Madagascar which occur syntopically, at least on the island of Nosy Boraha. The two species are morphologically closest to Blommersia wittei, but differ in advertisement... -
Multi-locus phylogeny and evolution of reproductive modes in the Pyxicephalidae, an African endemic clade of frogs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Arie van der Meijden --- Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal Angelica Crottini --- Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Jeanne Tarrant --- North-West University, South Africa Andrew Turner --- CapeNature, South Africa Miguel Vences --- Technical University of Braunschweig, GermanyThe ranoid family Pyxicephalidae is an endemic group of African frogs, with the majority of its diversity concentrated in South Africa. Here we present the first molecular phylogeny that includes as many as nine of the ten pyxicephalid genera, omitting... -
Description of the tadpole of Amietophrynus brauni (Anura: Bufonidae) from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Jared Sprague --- , USA BredaM. Zimkus --- Museum of Comparative Zoology, USAThe tadpole of Amietophrynus brauni (Anura: Bufonidae), endemic to the forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, is barcoded using 16S rRNA and described from the West Usambara Mountains. It differs from tadpoles of A. maculatus by its body... -
Age structure in the false tomato frog Dyscophus guineti from eastern Madagascar compared to the closely related D. antongilii (Anura, Microhylidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Giulia Tessa --- Università degli Studi, Italy FabioM. Guarino --- Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy JasminE. Randrianirina --- Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza, Faune, Madagascar Franco Andreone --- Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Zoology, ItalyThe false tomato frog, Dyscophus guineti, is an endemic species of eastern Madagascar, typically found in open and swampy areas of mid-elevation forests. We measured 62 females and 70 males from a population from Marovato, next to Brickaville. Snout-vent length... -
Medicinal and dietary uses of amphibians in Burkina Faso
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Meike Mohneke --- Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, Herpetology, Germany AbiodunB. Onadeko --- University of Lagos, Nigeria Mark-Oliver Rödel --- Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, Herpetology, GermanyHerein we present ethnozoological data on the use of frogs by two ethnic groups (Mossi and Gourmanché) in Burkina Faso. These data are based on 129 interviews. Differences concerning consumption, applications as medical treatments, and cultural purposes were recorded and... -
Using modern models to test Poynton's predictions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Clemens Schreiner --- Zoologisches Forschungmuseum Alexander Koenig, Germany Dennis Rödder --- Zoologisches Forschungmuseum Alexander Koenig, Germany G. John Measey --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South AfricaIn his seminal work ‘The Amphibia of southern Africa: a faunal study’, Poynton identified and contrasted two centres of amphibian importance, the temperate south-western Cape (“Cape”) and tropical northeast (“Tropical”). With reference to the dominant role of climate fluctuations resulting... -
Call repertoire of Ptychadena uzungwensis (Anura: Ptychadenidae) to complement molecular and morphological identification of the species from the Soutpansberg, South Africa.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times • Authors: Ferdi De Lange --- , South Africa Edward C Netherlands --- , South Africa Louis H Du Preez --- , South AfricaThe identity of adults and tadpoles of Ptychadena uzungwensis from the Soutpansberg range in northern South Africa was confirmed using a combination of morphological characters and molecular analysis. Detailed vocalisation analysis was made and used to complement existing species identification... -
Genetic diversity of the mantellid frog Blommersia blommersae, and description of a new anuran species from south-eastern Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times • Authors: Miguel Vences --- , Germany Moritz Armerding --- , Germany Jörn Köhler --- , Germany Frank Glaw --- , GermanyA range-wide assessment of genetic variation in one mitochondrial (16S rRNA) and one nuclear-encoded (Rag-1) gene fragment of the widespread Madagascar frog Blommersia blommersae revealed the presence of up to 12 deep genetic lineages. Many of these differed by genetic... -
Notes on lung development in South African ghost frogs (Anura: Heleophrynidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Treading a Delicate Tightrope: A principal balancing between education and political change during turbulent times • Authors: Jackson R Phillips --- , USA Jens Reissig --- , South Africa Gary Kyle Nicolau --- , USALungs are a prototypical trait of most tetrapods, but some amphibians have become secondarily lungless over evolutionary time. Anuran (frog) tadpoles offer an opportunity to examine lung loss from an evolutionary perspective, because there are many independent instances where lungs... -
A new anuran genus from the fossil sites of Langebaanweg and Cooper’s Cave, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Thalassa Matthews --- Iziko Museums of South Africa, South Africa Christine Steininger --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaEnigmatic frog ilia were recovered from two geographically and temporally disparate fossil sites in South Africa, namely the Early Pliocene (5.1 Ma) fossil site of Langebaanweg (south-western Cape), and Cooper’s Cave D (Northern province), which dates to around 1.38 Ma... -
Unveiling the First Neobatrachian (Anura) Discovered in the paleokarst system of Bolt’s Farm (Plio-Pleistocene; Cradle of Humankind), South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Alfred Lemierre --- Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, France Nonhlanhla Vilakazi --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Dominique Gommery --- Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, France Lazarus Kgasi --- Ditsong: National Museum of Natural History, South AfricaAnurans are widely diversified in South Africa, with more than 150 recognised species across the country. However, most the known fossil records of anurans are concentrated in the southern part of South Africa, within the rich Pliocene site of Langebaanweg... -
The reproductive biology of two sympatric West African savanna reed frogs (genus Hyperolius) in Marahoué National Park, Ivory Coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ouétré N’Guessan --- Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Gbongué U Zingbé --- Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Kouassi P Kanga --- Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly, Mark-Oliver Rödel --- , Germany N’Goran G Kouamé --- Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé,We studied the reproductive behaviour of the sympatric Hyperolius concolor and H. guttulatus in the humid savanna of the Marahoué National Park, central-western Ivory Coast. Males congregated in large choruses around a large stagnant swamp. Clutch size in H. concolor... -
A review of parasitic fauna of Egyptian amphibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Osama MS Mostafa --- Ain Shams University, Egypt Kareem Morsy --- King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Saad Bin Dajem --- King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Mahmoud HY Fedda --- Ain Shams University, EgyptThe world's biodiversity is facing a significant threat, and amphibians are particularly susceptible, being the most vulnerable vertebrate group globally. The decline in the amphibian population has been attributed, in part, to parasitic infection. Egyptian amphibian fauna was poorly studied,... -
Call description and extended range of Phrynobatrachus mayokoensis in Gabon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ryan van Huyssteen --- Ecological Services Ltd, British Virgin Islands Melissa Petford --- Ecological Services Ltd, British Virgin Islands Marius Burger --- Ecological Services Ltd, British Virgin Islands Mark-Oliver Rödel --- , Germany Joris Ngoulou --- Ecological Services Ltd, British Virgin Islands Abraham Bamba Kaya --- Ecological Services Ltd, British Virgin Islands Etienne Akomo Okoue --- Ecological Services Ltd, British Virgin Islands Jerome Gaugris --- Ecological Services Ltd, British Virgin IslandsThis study presents the first description of the advertisement call of Phrynobatrachus mayokoensis and reports a new locality record for this species in Gabon. During June 2022, two specimens were found in the Baniaka region, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon. The call...