Ptychadena harenna Largen, 1997

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Ptychadena > Species: Ptychadena harenna

Ptychadena harenna Largen, 1997, Tropical Zool., 10: 224. Holotype: LIV 1986.212.284, by original designation. Type locality: "west bank of the Yadot River (close to its confluence with the Shisha River), Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia (06° 32′ N 39° 46′ E), altitude 1550 m)".

English Names

Harenna Forest Grass Frog (Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 177).

Harenna Grass Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 342).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, at 1550 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ethiopia

Endemic: Ethiopia

Comment

Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 337, commented on distribution. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 177-179. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 342–343, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, Freilich, Kassie Teme, and Boissinot, 2021, ZooKeys, 1016: 77–141, and Reyes-Velasco, Goutte, Freilich, and Boissinot, 2021, ZooKeys,  1070: 135–149, for detailed accounts, phylogenetic placement, habitat, and placement in their Ptychadena neumanni group of the Ptychadena neumanni complex. Lyra, Kirchhof, Goutte, Kassie Teme, and Boissinot, 2023, Frontiers in Genetics, 14(1215715): 1–14, reported on the diversification and biogeography on the Ethiopian highlands, provided a dot map, and considered the species to be in the Ptychadena neumanni clade.

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