Xenopus wittei Tinsley, Kobel, and Fischberg, 1979
Xenopus wittei Tinsley, Kobel, and Fischberg, 1979, J. Zool., London, 188: 73. Holotype: BMNH 1977.2039, by original designation. Type locality: "Chelima Forest (waterhole alongside Kabale—Rutenga road), Kigezi District, S.W. Uganda; alt. 2200 m. 1° 04′ S, 29° 55′ E".
Xenopus (Xenopus) wittei — Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 13.
English Names
Witte's Clawed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).
De Witte's Clawed Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 246).
Distribution
Highland swamps and lakes bordering the Western Rift in southwestern Uganda, western Rwanda, and the Kahuzi-Biega and Lubero Highlands, eastern Dem. Rep Congo.
Comment
Specimens mentioned as Xenopus (laevis) bunyoniensis by Tymowska and Fischberg, 1973, Chromosoma, Berlin, 44: 337, are of this species. Closely related to Xenopus vestitus with similar karyotypes (2n=72); Tinsley, Kobel, and Fischberg, 1979, J. Zool., London, 188: 95, suggested that they share an allopolyploid origin with one ancestor in common. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 246-257, provided an account. Evans, Greenbaum, Kusamba, Carter, Tobias, Mendel, and Kelley, 2011, J. Zool., London, 283: XXX, commented on the range.
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