Xenopus victorianus Ahl, 1924
Xenopus victorianus Ahl, 1924, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 11: 270. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered in the original publication; given as ZMB 27635 by Bauer, Günther, and Robeck, 1996, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 72: 271. Type locality: "Busisi, am Victoria-See", Tanzania. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1925, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1925: 766; De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933-1935), 33: 28.
Xenopus laevis victorianus — Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 346, 351. De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933-1935), 33: 28.
Xenopus victorianus — Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 245.
English Names
Mwanza Frog (Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 351).
Lake ViCtoria Clawed Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 244).
Distribution
Aquatic habitats in arid savanna to forest in northern Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, eastern Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, and adjacent South Sudan to Kenya.
Comment
See comments under Xenopus laevis. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 245-246, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 53, and Lötters, Wagner, Bwong, Schick, Malonza, Muchai, Wasonga, and Veith, 2007, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Kakamega Forest: 12-13, provided accounts.
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