Breviceps poweri Parker, 1934

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Brevicipitidae > Genus: Breviceps > Species: Breviceps poweri

Breviceps poweri Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 195. Holotype: BMNH 1932.9.9.1, by original designation; reregistered 1947.2.14.89, by museum records. Type locality: "Broken Hill, N. Rhodesia, 3,900 ft." (= Kabwe, Zambia).

English Names

Power's Short-headed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Power's Rain Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 223; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 124).

Distribution

Eastern Angola (see comment) east through Zambia, southern Katanga Province (Dem. Rep. Congo), and eastern Malawi, to west-central Mozambique and northeastern Zimbabwe.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia

Likely/Controversially Present: Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe

Comment

See Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 26: 525-528, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 223-224, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 124-125. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 108-109, provided an account for Malawi. In the Breviceps mossambicus group of Nielsen, Daniels, Conradie, Heinicke, and Noonan, 2018, J. Biogeograph., 45: 2067–2079, who reported on molecular phylogenetics and biogeography. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 82, provided a brief account for Angola. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 255, suggested that this species probably extends into Angola adjacent to southwestern Zambia., although Nielsen, Conradie, Ceríaco, Bauer, Heinicke, Stanley, and Blackburn, 2020, ZooKeys, 979: 133–160, suggested that all Angolan records require confirmation. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 120–121, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. 

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