Phrynomantis newtoni Ceríaco, Santos, Marques, Bauer, & Tiutenko 2021

Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, Zootaxa 5028 (1), pp. 1-80 : 11

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495299

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scientific name

Phrynomantis newtoni Ceríaco, Santos, Marques, Bauer, & Tiutenko 2021
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Phrynomantis newtoni Ceríaco, Santos, Marques, Bauer, & Tiutenko 2021

Material (one specimen): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/ ANF 194 , formerly UP-MHNFCP-017327; Fig. S5 View FIGURE 5 ), collected from Chingo (Novo Redondo) [-11.20000º, 13.85000º, 11 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Sul Province, in 1903 .

Comments: Phrynomantis newtoni is a species known from low elevation coastal areas of southern and central Angola, ranging from Benguela to Luanda Province (Ceríaco et al. 2021). Boulenger had previously described the Angolan specimens as a Phrynomantis bifasciatus (Smith, 1847) variety – “Var. C” ( Boulenger 1882). Ferreira (1904) cited this specimen as an adult “ Phrynomantis bifasciatus ” of “Boulenger’s Var. C”. A recent study by Ceríaco et al. (2021) selected MHNC-UP/ANF194 as the holotype of the new taxon P. newtoni , honoring Francisco Newton as its collector and an important naturalist explorer.

Boulenger, G. A. (1882) Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia, s. Ecaudata, in the Collection of the British Museum. The Trustees of the British Museum, London, xvi + 530 pp., 30 pls.

Ferreira, J. B. (1904) Reptis e amphibios de Angola da regiao ao norte do Quanza (Colleccao Newton 1903). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 7 (25), 111 - 117.

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FIGURE 5. Life photo of Phrynobatrachus cf. mababiensis, from Maungo. Photo by Luis Ceríaco.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Microhylidae

Genus

Phrynomantis