Nectophryne afra Buchholz and Peters, 1875

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Material. ANGOLA – Cabinda Province • Mayombe NP, Vaku; –4.6323, 12.8937; 319 m a.s.l.; FKH 0948 (froglet); GenBank: PQ455871 .

Identification. A small toad (SVL = 19–25 mm) with slender body and webbed fingers and toes. Snout short and pointed (Channing and Rödel 2019). Two distinct clades have been recognised within N. afra, which might represent two valid taxa (Liedtke et al. 2021). The specimen reported here differs by ∼1% (16S p -distance) from material collected from Nyanga, Gabon (GenBank: MT724587), which clusters with other material from Republic of the Congo and southern Cameroon (Liedtke et al. 2021).

Biology and distribution. Nectophryne afra is an arboreal toad widely distributed in primary moist forest of the Gulf of Guinea and Congo Basin, including Bioko Island (Channing and Rödel 2019; Sanchez-Vialas et al. 2020). The material reported here represents a southern range extension and the first country record (Baptista 2024). The specimen was a metamorph found perched on a leaf ∼ 1.5 m high at Upper Mayombe.