Poyntonophrynus pachnodes Ceríaco, Marques, Bandeira, Agarwal, Stanley, Bauer, Heinicke & Blackburn, 2018

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Poyntonophrynus pachnodes Ceríaco, Marques, Bandeira, Agarwal, Stanley, Bauer, Heinicke & Blackburn, 2018

Fig. 4 d

Records.

Basecamp 1 [- 13.7770, 13.259, 1488 m] ( UF 184183, 184184, 190278, 190279; CAS 262730, INBAC / AMB 10209; INBAC / LMPC 1262 – 1264; MUHNAC / MB 04 - 000999, 001092).

Comments.

This recently described species is only known from Serra da Neve and considered a strict endemic ( Ceríaco et al. 2018; Baptista et al. 2023). Additional material for this species was collected from the type locality by the second expedition to the inselberg in 2019. This highland specialist was found in an area with moist soil under leaf-litter and rocks, at elevations greater than 1000 m. Recent research by Baptista et al. (2023) provided new data regarding the phylogenetic relationship of this Serra da Neve endemic, indicating that it is closely related to the arid-adapted P. dombensis and P. damaranus .

Genus Sclerophrys Tschudi, 1838

Figures

Figure 4. a, b Xenopus petersii c Poyntonophrynus dombensis d Poyntonophrynus pachnodes e Sclerophrys pusilla f Phrynomantis annectens g Leptopelis anchietae h Phrynobatrachus natalensis. Photographs by AT (a, b, e, g, h); LMPC (c, f) and IA (d).