Sclerophrys maculata (Hallowell, 1854)

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 : 19

HALLOWELL’S TOAD

Sclerophrys maculata (Hallowell, 1854)

MATERIAL.— Leba Pass, between river and highway, 5 December 2013, 15º04ʹ13.2ʺS, 13º14ʹ37.7ʺE, 1676 m ( CAS 254877–254878 ) .

COMMENTS.— In Angola this species mostly occurs in the southwestern provinces of Namibe, Benguela, Bié, and Huíla ( Marques 2015). The nearest records are in “Cainde” and “ 16 km W of Vila Nova” (Poynton and Haacke 1993; Ruas 1996, 2002). It is widespread in arreas to the south, including much of northern Namibia (du Preez and Carruthers 2009). Ohler and Dubois (2016) recently presented evidence identifying the type species of Sclerophrys Tschudi, 1838 as referable to Bufo rangeri Hewitt, 1935 , thus making Sclerophrys the oldest available name for the clade of African toads recently referred to as Amietophrynus Frost et al., 2006 .