A new snout-burrower from the Barotse floodplain (Anura: Hemisotidae: Hemisus)

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 367-372

  Channing, Alan ^a   Broadley, Donald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; HEMISOTIDAE; HEMISUS; HEMISUS GUINEENSIS; HEMISUS MARMORATUS;

EID: 0036747976     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/0022-1511(2002)036[0367:ANSBFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bosch, M., and R. Marquez. 2000. Acoustical interference in the advertisement calls of the midwife toads (Alytes obstetricans and Alytes cisternasii). Behaviour 137:249-263.
2. Emerson, S. B. 1976. Burrowing in frogs. Journal of Morphology 149:437-458.
3. Gerhardt, H. C. 1994a. Selective responses to long-range acoustical signals in insects and anurans. American Zoologist 34:706-714.
4. _. 1994b. The evolution of vocalization in frogs and toads. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25:293-324.
5. Hasegawa, Y., H. Ueda, and M. Sumida. 1999. Clinal geographic variation in the advertisement call of the wrinkled frog Rana rugosa. Herpetologica 55:318-324.
6. Inger, R. F. 1968. Mission H. de Saeger. Amphibia. Exploration du Parc National de la Garamba 52:1-190.
7. Jennions, M. D., P. R. Y. Backwell, and N. I. Passmore. 1995. Repeatability of mate choice: the effect of size in the African painted reed frog, Hyperolius marmoratus. Animal Behaviour 49:181-186.
8. Kaminsky, S. K., K. E. Linsenmair, and T. U. Grafe. 1999. Reproductive timing, nest construction and tadpole guidance in the African pig-nosed frog, Hemisus marmoratus. Journal of Herpetology 33:119-123.
9. Largen, M. J. 1997. Hemisus microscaphus Laurent 1972, a little-known Ethiopian endemic (Amphibia Anura). Tropical Zoology 10:271-285.
10. Laurent, R. 1972. Tentative revision of the genus Hemisus Günther. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren. Serie In-8°. Sciences Zoologiques. 194:1-67.
11. Noble, G. K. 1924. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition. Part III Amphibia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 49:147-347. Reprinted by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1998.
12. Passmore, N. I., and V. C. Carruthers. 1995. South African Frogs. 2nd ed. Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa.
13. Poynton, J. C. 1964. The Amphibia of southern Africa-a faunal study. Annals of the Natal Museum 17:1-334.
14. Poynton, J. C., and D. G. Broadley. 1985. Amphibia Zambesiaca 1. Scolecomorphidae, Pipidae, Microhylidae, Hemisidae, Arthroleptidae. Annals of the Natal Museum 26:503-553.
15. Roberts, J. D. 1997. Geographic variation in calls of males and determination of species boundaries in tetraploid frogs of the Australian genus Neobatrachus (Myobatrachidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 45:95-112.
16. Rödel, M.-O. 1996. Amphibien der westafrikanischen Savanne. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, Germany.
17. _. 2000. Amphibians of the West African Savanna-Herpetofauna of West Africa. Edition Chimaira. Frankfurt, Germany.
18. Rödel, M.-O., M. Spieler, K. Grabow, and C. Böckheler. 1995. Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854) (Anura: Hemisotidae), Fortflanzungsstrategien eines Savannenfrosches. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 45:191-207.
19. Schiøtz, A. 1964. The voices of some West African amphibians. Videnskabelige Meddelser, Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 127:35-83.
20. Van Dijk, D. E. 1985. Hemisus marmoratum adults reported to carry tadpoles. South African Journal of Science 81:209-210.
21. _. 1997. Parental care in Hemisus (Anura: Hemisotidae). South African Journal of Zoology 32:56-57.