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Amietia inyangae (Poynton, 1966)
Rana johnstoni inyangae Poynton, 1966, Arnoldia, Zimbabwe, 2: 1-3. Holotype: NMB (formerly UM) 9863, by original designation. Type locality: "Inyangani Mountain, Inyanga dist., Rhodesia [= Zimbabwe], at about 7,500 feet".
Afrana inyangae — Visser and Channing, 1997, J. Afr. Zool., 111: 191-198. Elevation made without discussion.
Amietia inyangae — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 367.
English Names
Inyanga River Frog (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 93; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 260; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 402).
Distribution
Eastern highlands of Zimbabwe in Inyangani Mountain and in Chimanimani National Park, above 2000 m elevation; presumably to be found in adjacent Mozambique.
Comment
Prior to the revision of Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, placed in the Section Strongylopus, subgenus Afrana of Rana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334. See accounts by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 260-261, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 402-403. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Afrana inyangae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 474. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 321, provided information on comparative larval morphology. See account and revision by Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 33–34. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 396, regarded this species as extinct.
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