Description

<div><p>Kassina deserticola Ahl, 1930c: 280.</p> <p>Syntype.</p> <p>ZMB 23397 (formerly two specimens, one present in ZMB collection), “Windhuk” [Windhoek, Namibia], coll. Leonhard Scheben.</p> <p>Present name.</p> <p>Kassina senegalensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1841).</p> <p>Remarks.</p> <p>Ahl (1930c: 281) exclusively designated two male specimens from “Windhuk” (ZMB 23397) as types (“Typen”). Another syntype MCZ A-17650 (formerly the second specimen under ZMB 23397) was sent in exchange to MCZ in 1932 (Barbour and Loveridge 1946: 132). Between 1909 and 1913, the German government veterinarian and farmer Scheben sent several amphibian and reptile collections from the former colony “Deutsch-Südwestafrika” to ZMB. Scheben collected in “Windhuk”, "Klein Nauas" and “Rehobot”.</p> <p>Kassina maculifer</p> <p>see Megalixalus maculifer.</p></div>

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Amphibia

Order: Anura

Family: Hyperoliidae

Genus: Kassina

Species: Kassina deserticola Ahl, 1930