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Xenopus victorianus Ahl, 1924
Xenopus victorianus Ahl, 1924, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 11: 270. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered in the original publication; given as ZMB 27635 by Bauer, Günther, and Robeck, 1996, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 72: 271. Type locality: "Busisi, am Victoria-See", Tanzania. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1925, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1925: 766; De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 33: 28.
Xenopus laevis victorianus — Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 346, 351; De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 33: 28.
Xenopus laevis bunyoniensis Loveridge, 1932, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 45: 114. Holotype: MCZ 14616, by original designation. Type locality: "Bufundi on western shore of Lake Bunyoni, Kigezu District, South-western Uganda". Provisionally moved into this synonymy by Furman, Bewick, Harrison, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Chifundera, and Evans, 2015, Mol. Ecol., 24: 921, pending additional data from the type locality.
Xenopus (laevis) bunyoniensis — Tymowska and Fischberg, 1973, Chromosoma, Berlin, 44: 335.
Xenopus victorianus — Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 245.
English Names
Mwanza Frog (Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 351).
Lake ViCtoria Clawed Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 244).
Distribution
Aquatic habitats in arid savanna to forest in northern Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, eastern Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, and adjacent South Sudan to eastern Kenya.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Comment
See comments under Xenopus laevis. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 245–246, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 53, and Lötters, Wagner, Bwong, Schick, Malonza, Muchai, Wasonga, and Veith, 2007, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Kakamega Forest: 12–13, provided accounts. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 298–299, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Furman, Bewick, Harrison, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Chifundera, and Evans, 2015, Mol. Ecol., 24: 909–925, provided a molecular phylogeography study. In the Xenopus laevis group of Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 29. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 31, provided a range map for Kenya, photograph, and brief characterization. Kako-Wanzalire, Mongo, Ilonga, Mapoli, Mbumba, Neema, Tungaluna, Itoka, and Bogaert, 2021, Tropicultura, 39 (1: 1709): 1–19, briefly discussed (as Xenopus cf. victorianus) habitat preference in northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 1–81, discussed the range, identification, natural history, advertisement call, and conservation status in Rwanda.
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