Hildebrandtia ornata (Peters, 1878)
Pyxicephalus ornatus Peters, 1878, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1878: 207. Holotype: ZMB 9297 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 49. Type locality: "Taita" (= Teita), Kenya. Secondary homonym of Rana ornata Holbrook, 1842 (= Pseudacris ornatus), when considered to be in Rana.
Rana ornata — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 33.
Rana moeruensis Boulenger, 1901, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Zool., 2: 2. Holotype: MRAC 60, according to De Witte, 1930, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 19: 266. Type locality: "Pweto", Dem. Rep. Congo. Synonymy by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 40.
Rana Budgetti Boulenger, 1903, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 12: 555. Syntypes: BMNH (4 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "McCarthy Island, Gambia". Synonymy by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 40.
Rana ruddi Boulenger, 1907, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907: 480. Syntypes: BMNH (3 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "a rain pool at Beira", Mozambique. Synonymy with Rana ornata ornata by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 40; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 122.
Hildebrandtia ornata — Nieden, 1907, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1907: 228.
Pyxicephalus ruddi — Boulenger, 1910, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 5: 528.
Rana (Hildebrandtia) moeruensis — Boulenger, 1919, Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., 8: 33-37.
Rana (Hildebrandtia) ornata — Boulenger, 1919, Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., 8: 34. Procter, 1920, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1920: 413; Mertens, 1971, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 529: 17; Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233; by implication.
Rana (Hildebrandtia) ruddi — Boulenger, 1919, Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., 8: 34.
Rana (Hildebrandtia) budgetti — Boulenger, 1919, Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., 8: 34.
Rana ornata ornata — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 40.
Rana ornata moeruensis — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 40.
Rana ornata budgetti — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 40.
Pyxicephalus ornatus ornatus — Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 70.
Hildebrandtia ornata ornata — Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 122.
Rana ornata ornata — Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 46.
Hildebrandtia (Hildebrandtia) ornata — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56.
Hildebrandtia ornata moeruensis — Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 80.
English Names
Moeru Frog (Rana moeruensis: Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 158).
Ornate Pyxie (Pyxicephalus ornatus ornatus: Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 79).
Black-throated Pyxie (Pyxicephalus ornatus ornatus: Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 79).
Ornate Frog (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 139; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 148; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 294-295; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 302).
Ornate Burrowing Frog (Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 114; Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 102).
Hildebrandt's Burrowing Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5).
African Ornate Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99).
Common Ornate Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 266).
Southern Ornate Frog (Theron and Minter, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 282).
Budgett's Burrowing Frog (Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 9).
Distribution
Subsaharan savannas of Africa south to northern Namibia, southern Mozambique, northern and eastern Botswana, southern Malawi, and northeastern Rep. South Africa.
Comment
See Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 38-41, and Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 141-142, for accounts of central African populations. Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 80-81, discussed the Natal population. Poynton and Haacke, 1993, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 36: 1-16, suggested that Angolan populations approached Hildebrandtia ornatissima (their Hildebrandtia ornata ornatissima) morphologically., provided accounts. Not included in the Somalian herpetofauna by Lanza, 1990, Biogeographia, 14: 409. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 79-84, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 294-295, Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 266-268, and Theron and Minter, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 282-283, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 302-303, provided accounts. Nago, Grell, Sinsin, and Rödel, 2006, Salamandra, 42: 93-108, provided a record for Benin. Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 6-16, implied that records from Gambia were flawed. Pauwels and Rödel, 2007, Herpetozoa, 19: 135-148, did not note this species as occurring in Gabon. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 245-246, provided an account for Malawi.
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