Ptychadena subpunctata (Barboza du Bocage, 1866)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Ptychadena > Species: Ptychadena subpunctata

Rana subpunctata Barboza du Bocage, 1866, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 1 (1): 54. Nomen nudum.

Rana subpunctata Barboza du Bocage, 1866, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 1 (1): 73. Holotype: MBL; lost, according to Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 20. Type locality: "Duque de Bragança", Angola.

Rana (Ptychadena) katangae De Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 3. Syntypes: MRAC (4 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Lofoï (Katanga)", Dem. Rep. Congo. Synonymy by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56 (incorrectly attributing the synonymy to Loveridge, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 22); Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102.

Rana (Ptychadena) subpunctataDe Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 6; Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942; by implication; Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102; Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.

Rana chobiensis FitzSimons, 1932, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 15: 39. Syntypes: TMP (formerly Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition 998), by original designation. Type locality: "Kasane on the Chobe River", Botswana. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1953, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110: 329; Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102.

Ptychadena supunctataGuibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 127; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Ptychadena subpunctataLaurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 132; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 127.

 

English Names

African Spotted Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 158).

Spot-bellied Ridged Frog (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23).

Bocage's Grass Frog (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 110).

Bocage's Grassland Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Spotted Ridged Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 340).

Speckled-bellied Grass Frog (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 322).

Spotted-belly Grass Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 336).

Distribution

Southern Dem. Rep. Congo, northern Botswana, western Zambia, northeastern Namibia, northwestern Zimbabwe, and Angola excepting the northeast and southwest.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Botswana, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Comment

Reviewed by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102–104, and Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 127–128. See Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 143–144, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 340–341, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 322–323, for accounts of southern populations. Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 136–137, also provided an account. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 315, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 139–140, provided a map for Angola and brief discussion of the literature. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 336–337, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Conradie, Keates, Verburgt, Baptista, and Harvey, 2023, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 17: 46, provided an account and dot map of the species in Angola.

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