Afrixalus enseticola Largen, 1974

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Hyperoliinae > Genus: Afrixalus > Species: Afrixalus enseticola

Afrixalus enseticola Largen, 1974, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 5: 121. Holotype: BMNH 1973.2882, by original designation. Type locality: "West of Bonga, Kaffa Province, 1800 m. a.s.l. (07° 14′ N—35° 58′ E)", Ethiopia.

English Names

Bonga Banana Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Ethiopian Banana Frog (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 280).

Grassland Spiny Reed Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 160).

Distribution

Montane grassland and forest-edge of high-elevation southern Ethiopia on both sides of the Rift Valley at altitudes of 1700–2750 m., west at least to the Keffa Zone of southwestern Ethiopia.

Comment

Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 357, commented on distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 280. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 110. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 69-70, provided a brief account and map. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 160–161, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Nečas, Kielgast, Nagy, Chifundera, and Gvoždík, 2022, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 174 (107514): 7, provided a molecular tree that suggests that this nominal species is not in a monophyletic group with other Afrixalus and deserves its own genus.  Kassie Teme, Bekele Simegn, and Afework Bogale, 2022, Global Ecol. Conserv., 38 (e02211): 1–12, reported the species from Keffa Zone, southwestern Ethiopia, and discussed habitat.

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