Amietia fuscigula (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
Rana fuscigula Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 386. Holotype: MNHNP 4471, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 36. Type locality: "environs du cap de Bonne-Espérance", Rep. South Africa.
Rana quecketti Boulenger, 1895 "1894", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894: 643. Holotype: BMNH. Type locality: "near Pietermaritzburg, Natal", South Africa. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1910, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 5: 526; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 108. Also placed provisionally in the synonymy of Rana angolensis by Boulenger, 1918, Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., 7: 136.
Rana fuscigula fuscigula — Hewitt, 1927, Rec. Albany Mus., 3: 408. Parker, 1936, Novit. Zool., 40: 141.
Rana (Rana) fuscigula — Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 36. Mertens, 1971, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 529: 7; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42.
Rana (Afrana) fuscigula — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.
Afrana fuscigula — Visser and Channing, 1997, J. Afr. Zool., 111: 192.
Amietia fuscigula — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 366.
English Names
Dark-throated River Frog (Hewitt, 1937, Guide Vert. Fauna E. Cape Province, Rept. Amph. Fishes: 95; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 132).
Dusky-throated River Frog (Rose, 1950, Rep. Amph. S. Afr.: 46; Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 162; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 132).
Dark-throated Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15).
Cape River Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 132; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 259; Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 273; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 400).
Cape Rana (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 141; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 132).
Brown-throated Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).
Distribution
Widely distributed in Rep. South Africa and Lesotho to western Swaziland and extreme southern Namibia; isolated populations in the Naufluft Mountains and along the Fish River in south-central Namibia.
Comment
Prior to the revision of Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, placed in the Section Strongylopus, subgenus Afrana of Rana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334. Reviewed by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 103-109, who clarified the Rana angolensis—Rana fuscigula problem. Further diagnosis in Channing, 1978, Ann. Natal Mus., 23: 361-365. See brief account by Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 93-94, and longer ones by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 259-260, Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 273-274, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 96-97, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 400-401. The name Rana hymenopus, although properly a synonym of Rana fuscigula has generally been applied to the species currently referred to as Amietia umbraculata. Bates and Haacke, 2003, Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 19: 132-133, discussed the species in Lesotho. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 283, noted an unnamed and related species in Malawi. See comment under Strongylopus hymenopus.
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