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Xenopus clivii Peracca, 1898
Xenopus clivii Peracca, 1898, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 13 (321): 3. Type(s): Not stated; MZUT An261 (Sanganeiti) and An219 (Adi Caièh) are syntypes according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 40. Type locality: "Eritrea, Saganeiti, [and] Adi Caié", Eritrea.
Xenopus (Xenopus) clivii — Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 13.
Common Names
Peracca's Clawed Frog (Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 153).
Clivi's Clawed Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 50).
Eritrea Clawed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).
Eritrean Smooth Clawed Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 110).
Distribution
Centered on the Ethiopian Plateau, but also found in Eritrea, and likely extending into the Lake Turkana region of northwestern Kenya and immediately (although requiring confirmation) adjacent South Sudan, from about 820 to 2745 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Eritrea, Ethiopia
Likely/Controversially Present: Kenya, South Sudan
Comment
Chromosome number 2n = 36 (Tymowska and Fischberg, 1973, Chromosoma, Berlin, 44: 337). See comments by Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 312–313. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia and Eritrea by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 152–154. Evans, Bliss, Mendel, and Tinsley, 2011, Mol. Ecol., 20: 4216–4230, discussed the genetic differentiation of populations on either side of the Rift in Ethiopia. Possibly in the Xenopus muelleri group according to Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 29. Spawls, Mazuch, and Mohammad, 2023, Handb. Amph. Rept. NE Afr.: 31–32, provided an account addressing identification, natural history, conservation status, and range (including wanting confirmation for South Sudan) in northeastern Africa, including a polygon map.
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