Phrynobatrachus natalensis (Smith, 1849)

Bittencourt-Silva Keywords., Gabriela B., 2019, A herpetological survey of western Zambia, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 181) 13 (2), pp. 1-28 : 9

Phrynobatrachus natalensis (Smith, 1849)

Snoring Puddle Frog

Material. NGONYE FALLS: BMNH 2018.5855. Comments: The overall external morphology resembles P. natalensis . The BLAST search shows 98% sequence similarity to P. natalensis from Mtunzini, South Africa ( DQ 347303), which is near Durban, the type locality of P. natalensis (see Table 3 and Fig. 5 ).

Figures

Fig. 5. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree inferred from nucleotide sequence data from mitochondrial 16S rRNA of Phrynobatrachus natalensis. Numbers above branches are non-parametric bootstrap support values.Specimen vouchers or GenBank accession numbers are shown in parentheses. Colored polygons highlight the clades comprising specimens from this study. (*) Nearest sample from type locality of Phrynobatrachus natalensis; (**) Haplotype groups A and B in Zimkus and Schick (2010).