Ptychadena sp.

Lobón-Rovira, Javier, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, Ninda L, Clark, Tyron, Verburgt, Luke, Jongsma, Gregory Fm, Conradie, Werner, and, Luis Veríssimo, Vaz, Pedro & Pinto, 2025, Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa, African Journal of Herpetology 74 (1), pp. 1-59 : 1-59

Ptychadena sp.

Material. ANGOLA – Cabinda Province • Fazenda Mandarim ; –5.0401, 12.0508; 14 m a.s.l.; P4.075; GenBank: PQ455935 .

Identification. Within the Ptychadena mascareniensis species complex, we identified a second independent lineage which differs from material of P. mascareniensis OTU 6 collected from Cabinda Province by ∼3.4% (16S p -distance). This material clusters with material ascribed to OTUs 4, 5 and 8 from West Africa and north-eastern DRC ( Zimkus et al. 2017), but it represents a distinct lineage. Thus, we regard this material as “ Ptycadena sp.” pending further investigation.

Biology and distribution. The specimen was collected on a palm oil plantation in the Coastal Drier Belt.