Tomopterna krugerensis Passmore and Carruthers, 1975

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Cacosterninae > Genus: Tomopterna > Species: Tomopterna krugerensis

Tomopterna krugerensis Passmore and Carruthers, 1975, Koedoe, 18: 32. Holotype: TMP 44670, by original designation. Type locality: "Machayipan, Kruger National Park, Republic of South Africa".

Rana (Tomopterna) krugerensisDubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication.

Tomopterna (Tomopterna) krugerensisDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56.

Tomopterna krugerensisVences, Glaw, Kosuch, Das, and Veith, 2000, Lourenço and Goodman (eds.), Diversité et Endéémisme à Madagascar: 232.

English Names

Knocking Sand Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 122; Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 324–325; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 440).

Sandveld Pyxie (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 122; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 86).

Kruger Burrowing Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15).

Kruger Bullfrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Distribution

Northeastern Rep. South Africa to southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe and east throughout most of Botswana to northern Namibia and southwestern Angola (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Comment

Probably has a wider distribution northward than indicated, but obscured by confusion with other species according to J. C. Poynton In Perret, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 524. See accounts in Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 127–129, Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 76–78, Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 324–325, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 125–126, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 440–441. Dawood, Channing, and Bogart, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 22: 407–413, reported an unnamed species (now Tomopterna ahli) masquerading under this name from Khorixas, Namibia. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 154–155, provided a brief discussion of the literature. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 258, noted specimens from northern Namibia adjacent to southern Angola, suggesting its eventual discovery there. Phaka, Netherlands, Kruger, and Du Preez, 2017, Bilingual Field Guide Frogs Zululand: 72, provided a photograph, Zululand regional map, and a brief account of life history and identification. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 380–381, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.  

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