Amietia ruwenzorica (Laurent, 1972)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Cacosterninae > Genus: Amietia > Species: Amietia ruwenzorica

Rana ruwenzorica Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 93. Holotype: MRAC 74-18B5820 according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 13. Type locality: "Kikyo, secteur Munsenene, forêt de montagne, 2. 080 m", Dem. Rep. Congo.

Rana (Rana) ruwenzoricaDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42.

Rana (Afrana) ruwenzoricaDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.

Afrana ruwenzoricaVisser and Channing, 1997, J. Afr. Zool., 111: 191-198.

Amietia ruwenzoricaFrost, 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

Ruwenzori Range Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Ruwenzori River Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 252; Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 41).

Distribution

From 1700–2800 m elevation on the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda, the Kabobo and Itombwe plateaus in Dem. Rep. Congo, and the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Rwanda, Uganda

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. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 252-253, provided an account (as Afrana ruwenzorica). Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 322–323, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 41–42, provided an account and revision. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 356–357, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Mali, Chifundera, Mlungu, Mizani, Katuala, Mbalitini, Ewango, Tungaluna, and Akaibe, 2019, Am. J. Zool., 2: 18–27, reported on specimens from Nord-Kivu, Dem. Rep. Congo. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 1–81, discussed the range, identification, natural history, and conservation status in Rwanda. 

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