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Leptopelis anchietae

Leptopelis anchietae

(Bocage, 1873)

GBIF:231569742

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Material (1 tadpole lot): PEM A 14174 (five tadpoles), Cubango River campsite below rapids, west of Fundo village, - 13.04260 ° 16.37476 °, 1,559 m asl. Description: Elongated tadpoles; 20.8 – 30.6 mm total length, with tail 2.6 – 3.1 times the body length. Body is dark brown to black, ventrum with scattered light golden spots; lateral tail muscle dark brown to black, with two lighter bands from body to tail tip; posterior half of tail black. The labial tooth row formula (LTRF) is 3 (2 – 3) / 3 (1); jaw sheaths are heavily keratinized; anterior part of mouth free of elongated marginal papillae. Habitat and natural history notes: Tadpoles were collected in a flooded grassland next to the main river. Comments: Identification of tadpoles was confirmed by 16 S rRNA barcoding (N. Baptista, unpub. data) and compared to the description in Channing et al. (2012). This Angolan endemic species occurs mostly in the highlands of central and western Angola (Becker et al., in prep.), and many of the old historical records (e. g., Marques et al. 2018) are based on incorrect identifications or erroneous locality data (Pedro vaz Pinto, pers. comm.).
Conradie, Werner, Keates, Chad, Verburgt, Luke, Baptista, Ninda L., Harvey, James (2023): Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango- Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 325) 17 (1): 19-56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761936

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Map 3. Distribution of Leptopelis anchietae in Angola.

Imageimage/png© Conradie, Werner;Keates, Chad;Verburgt, Luke;Baptista, Ninda L.;Harvey, JamesConradie, Werner;Keates, Chad;Verburgt, Luke;Baptista, Ninda L.;Harvey, James

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Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango- Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Conradie, Werner, Keates, Chad, Verburgt, Luke, Baptista, Ninda L., Harvey, James (2023): Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango- Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 325) 17 (1): 19-56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761936

Abstract. —This article is the third and final installment of the herpetofaunal results obtained from a series of rapid biodiversity surveys of the upper Cuito, Cubango, Cuando, Zambezi, and Kwanza River basins in Angola. The amphibian survey results are presented along with an updated checklist of the historical and current records of amphibians from the southeastern region of Angola. A total of 1,114 new amphibian records were documented, comprising 37 species, bringing the total number of recognized amphibian species in this region to 49. These surveys documented two new country records (Hyperolius cf. inyangae and Kassinula wittei) and at least two candidate new species, and elevated Amnirana adiscifera stat. nov. (which now encompasses the western green form formerly regarded as A. darlingi). Finally, updated distribution maps for all of Angola are provided for all the species encountered within the study region.

Conradie W, Keates C, Verburgt L, Baptista N L, Harvey J, felipe (2023). Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango- Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xqyzdr accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 8/4/2023View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
231569742
Dataset Key
5e6c8fd8-74a8-4de2-8687-29b4ea71fac1
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2429706
Taxon ID
43578788003B3F5488A167C4FB540780.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026