Hemisus Günther, 1859

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemisotidae > Genus: Hemisus
9 species

Hemisus Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 47. Type Species: Engystoma guttatum Rapp, 1842, by monotypy.

Kakophrynus Steindachner, 1863, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 48: 191. Type species: Kakophrynus sudanensis Steindachner, 1863, by monotypy. Synonymy by Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 284; Peters, 1882, Naturwiss. Reise Mossambique, Zool. 3: 173; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 178.

CacophrynusCope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 199. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Kakophrynus Steindachner, 1863.

English Names

Shovel-snouted Frogs (Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 119).

Pig-nosed Frogs (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Shovel-nosed Frogs (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 6; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 210; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 214).

Shovel-snouted Frogs (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Shovelnose Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).

Snout-burrowers (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 119; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 124).

Piglet Frogs (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 112). 

Distribution

Tropical and subtropical Africa south of the Sahara.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Comment

See Laurent, 1972, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 194: 1-67, for the most recent revision of this genus. See Poynton, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 8, and Frost and Savage, 1987, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 33: 24, for nomenclature; Hemisus, although linguistically neuter in gender must be treated as if it were masculine for reason of Article 30.1.3 of ICZN, 1999, Internatl. Code Zool. Nomencl., Ed. 4: 35. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 119-120, provided a key to the species of southern Africa. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 124-125, provided a key and accounts for East Africa. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 214-221, provided a key and accounts for the species of southern Africa. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 112–115, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.

Contained taxa (9 sp.):

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