Amietia angolensis ( Bocage, 1866 )

Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2), pp. 15-61 : 20

ANGOLA RIVER FROG

Amietia angolensis ( Bocage, 1866)

MATERIAL.— Leba Pass, between river and highway, 5 December 2013, 15º4ʹ12.2ʺS, 13º14ʹ38.9ʺE, 1676 m ( CAS 254876 ) .

COMMENTS.— This specimen represents the first record for the species for the province, although there are several records from the province of Huíla, in Boca de Humpata (Laurent 1964a; Ruas 1996; Channing and Baptista 2013), and Huila ( Bocage 1895; Themido 1941; Perret 1976; Ruas 1996, 2002) less than 20 km east of Leba Pass. The species is widespread across the rest of the country ( Marques 2015) as well as in much of the more mesic areas of southern Africa. In Namibia it occurs only where there are permanent rivers (du Preez and Carruthers 2009).