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Taxonomic Accounts 
AMPHIBIA 
Order ANURA Dumeril, 1805 
Family Pipidac Gray, 1825 
Genus AV/iopw.s Waller, 1827 
Xenopus andrei Luumont, 1983 Andre's Clawed Frog 
Xenopus andrei Loumont 1983:170. Holotype: MNHG 2088.32 (collector unknown, probably C. Loumont). 
Type locality: “Longyi (Nord de Kribi) ” Cameroon. 
Xenopus andrei: lUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2013d), Wagner et al. (2013:206), Ernst et al. 
(2015:147), Evans et al. (2015:29), Frost (2016). 
Global conser>ation status (lUCN): Least Concern. 
Global distribution: The species is known from few localities in southern Cameroon, north¬ 
eastern Gabon and western Central African Republic. It was recently found in northwestern Ango¬ 
la and it has been suggested to be more widespread, extending into Equatorial Guinea, the Congo 
and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
Ocurrences in .Angola (Map 1): Uige: 
“Serra do Pingano” [-7.67297, 14.93825] 
(Ernst et al. 2015:148). 
Taxonomic and distributional notes: 
The Angolan record (Ernst et al. 2015) pro¬ 
vides documentation of the southernmost range 
of this species. Wagner et al. (2013) and Ernst 
et al. (2015) included the species in the 
X. fraseri subgroup, which comprised several 
morphologically similar species that mainly 
occur in Central Africa. Ernst et al. (2015) clar¬ 
ified the taxonomic status of the Angolan pop¬ 
ulations and reviewed the distribution patterns 
oiXenopus fraseri Boulenger, 1905 in Central 
Africa. Evans et al. (2015) regarded the mem¬ 
bers of the former X. fraseri subgroup, exclu¬ 
sive of X. fraseri itself (i.e., Xenopus amieti 
Kobel, Du Pasquicr, Fischberg and Gloor, Map I. DistribuHon of in Angola. 
1980; X. andrei Loumont, 1983; X. boumbaensis Loumont, 1983; X. itombwensis Evans, Carter, 
Tobias, Kelley, Manner and Tinsley, 2008; X. lenduensis Evans, Greenbaum, Kusamba, Carter, 
Tobias, Mendel and Kelley, 2011; A. longipes Loumont and Kobel, 1991; A. pygmaeus Loumont, 
1986; A. ruwenzoriensis Tymov/ska and Fischberg, 1973; X. vestitus Laurent, 1972; and X. wittei 
Tinsley, Kobel and Fischberg, 1979) as members of the newly proposed Xenopus amieti group, to 
which they added two new species described in their publication — Xenopus allofraseri and Xeno¬ 
pus eysoole. 
