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Hyperolius cinereus

Hyperolius cinereus

Monard, 1937

GBIF:231569753

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Material (12 specimens, 1 tadpole lot): PEM A 12442 – 4, INBAC (no numbers x 2), Cuchi River gorge, - 14.59000 ° 16.90758 °, 1,375 m asl; PEM A 12664, PEM A 12670, Cubango River, campsite 1 below rapids, west of Fundo village, - 13.04790 ° 16.37806 °, 1,565 m asl; PEM A 13787 – 9, INBAC: WC- 520, Dam / Hydroplant on Cuquema River, - 12.42556 ° 16.81856 °, 1,640 m asl; PEM A 14128 (10 tadpoles), old Kuvango Hydroplant Site, wetland to east, - 14.38755 ° 16.30166 °, 1,438 m asl; INBAC: WC- 5169, Cubango River source site, - 12.66256 ° 16.09324 °, 1,771 m asl. Description: Medium sized reed frog. No sexual dichromatism observed; both sexes with lime green to olive dorsum; protruding yellow eyes; red inner thighs; ventrum yellow. Males with yellow gular disc. Adult females (n = 3) varied from 20.3 – 29.1 (25.0) mm (largest female PEM A 13789); adult males (n = 9) varied from 19.1 – 22.8 (21.6) mm (largest male: PEM A 12443). Habitat and natural history notes: Only recorded from the western side of the study area, where it was associated with the Cubango and Cuito rivers. Comments: Widely recorded from the interior highlands of Angola (Conradie et al. 2013). The map in Marques et al. (2018) incorrectly plotted records from southern Cuando Cubango Province. The southeasternmost Angolan record of this species is close to the town of Menongue (Conradie et al. 2013).
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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Fig. 13. Adult Hyperolius cinereus from Cubango River rapids near Fundo village. Photo by Werner Conradie.

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Map 12. Distribution of Hyperolius cinereus in Angola.

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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 2026-06-16.

CC0Published 8/4/2023View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
231569753
Dataset Key
5e6c8fd8-74a8-4de2-8687-29b4ea71fac1
Origin
source
Backbone Key
5217712
Taxon ID
4357878800313F5F8B3B60DEFD18056E.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026