Hemisus wittei Laurent, 1963
Hemisus wittei Laurent, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 397. Holotype: MRAC 100840, by original designation. Type locality: "Mabwe, Katanga [= Shaba], southeastern Congo [=Dem. Rep. Congo]".
Kassinula wittei — Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51.
English Names
Witte’s Shovelnose Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).
DeWitte’s Snout-burrower (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 125).
Distribution
Lower Shaba Province, Dem. Rep. Congo, and northwestern Zambia.
Comment
See Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 26: 533, for short discussion of taxonomic characters.
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