Hylarana (Amnirana) aff. lepus (Andersson, 1903)

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

Hylarana (Amnirana) aff. lepus (Andersson, 1903)

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Material. ANGOLA – Cabinda Province • Mayombe NP, Miconge; –4.4860, 12.8780; 377 m a.s.l.; FKH 1025 , FKH 1029 , FKH 1056 ; GenBank : PQ455655−57. • Mayombe NP, Vaku; –4.6323, 12.8937; 319 m a.s.l.; FKH 0935−37 ; GenBank: PQ455658−00. • Mayombe NP, Lombe River, Vaku; -4.6403, 12.935; 269 m a.s.l.; P3.159; GenBank: PQ455661 .

Identification. A large (SVL = 70–100 mm) white-lipped frog with small oval glands on the forelimbs in males and granular skin across the entire body. The material from Cabinda Province is identical (16S p -distance) to material from Lekoumou, Republic of the Congo (GenBank: KY080044 , KY080047 ) and DRC (GenBank: MG552243 ), which was ascribed by Jongsma et al. (2018) to an undescribed species ( Hylarana “lepus 1”). Thus, we consider the newly collected material to be conspecific with the material of Jongsma et al. (2018), here referred to as H. aff. lepus .

Biology and distribution. Hylarana lepus sensu lato is distributed across the Congo Basin and Gulf of Guinea from Cameroon to Angola ( Channing and Rödel 2019), with two separate lineages from either side of the Congo River ( Jongsma et al. 2018). In Cabinda Province, the species was only found in primary moist forest at Upper Mayombe between 260–400 m a.s.l. perched low on branches over water in fast-flowing forest streams.

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Figure 7. Species of the families Phrynobatrachidae, Pipidae, Ptychadenidae, Ranidae and Rhacophoridae recorded from from Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province, Angola. Codes in brackets represent field numbers. A. Phrynobatrachus auritus (P2.057) and B. (P2.033) from Vaku, Upper Mayombe, C. (P3.141) from Chimbete and D. (P3.191) from Sanga Wanda, Lower Mayombe. E. P. aff. parvulus (P2.115) from Caio Cacungo. F. Amplectant pair of P. aff. parvulus from Sanga Wanda, G. (P3.135) from Chimbete, and H. (P3.124) Mbundu, Lower Mayombe. I. Phrynobatrachus sp. (P2.196) from Miconge, Upper Mayombe. J. Xenopus (Xenopus) allofraseri (P3.121) and K. Xenopus (Xenopus) andrei (P3.533) from Sanga Wanda, Lower Mayombe. L. Xenopus (Silurana) mellotropicalis (P3.176), from Quissoki, Upper Mayombe. M. Hymenochirus feae (P3.544) from Mbundo, Lower Mayombe. N. Ptychadena anchietae (P3.107) from Sanga Wanda, Lower Mayombe. O. Ptychadena mascareniensis OUT 6 (P3.168), Lombe River, Vaku, Upper Mayombe. P. Ptychadena perreti (P2.214) from Miconge, Upper Mayombe Q. Ptychadena taenioscelis (P1.141) from Tando Zinze. R. Hylarana (Amnirana) albolabris (P3.154) from Quissoki and S. Hylarana (Amnirana) aff. lepus (P2.187) from Miconge, Upper Mayombe. T. Chiromantis rufescens (P9.072) from South of Dinge. Photographs by PVP (A–E, G–T), JLR (F).