Kassinula Laurent, 1940
Kassinula Laurent, 1940, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 33: 313. Type species: Kassinula wittei Laurent, 1940, by monotypy.
English Names
Clicking Frogs (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 185).
Distribution
Uplands of western and northern Zambia and southern Dem. Rep. Congo, generally in flooded grassy areas.
Comment
Kassinula was resurrected from the synonymy of Kassina by Drewes, 1984, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 139: 55, where it had been placed by Laurent and Combaz, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 43: 273. J.-L. Perret in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 225, regarding Kassinula as a subgenus of Kassina. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 37-38, considered Kassinula a junior synonym of Kassina. Channing, 1989, S. Afr. J. Zool., 24: 116-131, transferred it to the Hyperoliinae, as the sister-taxon of Afrixalus, on the basis of a parsimony analysis. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 247-248, and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 185-186, provided accounts.
Contained taxa
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