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Amnirana darlingi (Boulenger, 1902)
Rana darlingi Boulenger, 1902, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1902: 15. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Mazöe and between Umtali [Mutare] and Marandellas [= Marondera]", Mashonaland, Zimbabwe.
Rana (Rana) darlingi — Monard, 1937 "1936", Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 62: 44.
Rana albolabris adiscifera — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 48. Holotype: FMNH 21171, by original designation. Type locality: "Chitau, Angola". Synonymy by Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 132; Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 843.
Hylarana darlingi — Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 119.
Rana (Hylarana) darlingi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.
Rana (Amnirana) darlingi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.
Amnirana darlingi — Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.
Hydrophylax darlingi — 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: 368.
Hylarana darlingi — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, by implication.
Amnirana darlingi — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 187.
English Names
Golden-backed Frog (Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 113; Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 100).
Darling's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).
Darling's Golden-backed Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 452).
Darling's White-lipped Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266).
Distribution
Savannas of Angola, Katanga Province (Dem. Rep. Congo), extreme northern Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, southern Malawi, and western Mozambique.
Comment
Sole member of the Rana (Amnirana) darlingi group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. See Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 119, and Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 843. See also Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 132. See accounts by Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 139-140 (as Hylarana darlingi). Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266-268, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 87-88 (as Amnirana darlingi), and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 452-453. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 298-299, provided an account for Malawi. Conradie, Tweddle, Mäkinen, and Bills, 2012, Zootaxa, 3441: 56-58. reported on larval morphology. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 364, provided information on comparative larval morphology. See range map provided by Jongsma, Barej, Barratt, Burger, Conradie, Ernst, Greenbaum, Hirschfeld, Leaché, Penner, Portik, Zassi-Boulou, Rödel, and Blackburn, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 120: 275. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 158–160, provided a map for Angola and brief discussion of the literature. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 388–389, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.
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