MARQUES ET AL.; AMPHIBIANS AND TERRESTRIAL REPTILES OF ANGOLA 
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Table of Contents 
Foreword.1 
Abstract.9 
Introduction.9 
The Angolan landscape.11 
Political and administrative borders of Angola.11 
Physiography.12 
River Basins.13 
Geology.14 
Climate.14 
Biomes and vegetation zones.14 
History of herpetological research in Angola.23 
Diversity, Distribution and Endemism.37 
Conservation.48 
Materials and Methods.55 
Data.55 
Mapping species occurrence.55 
Account standardization.56 
Abbreviations and Acronyms.56 
Taxonomic accounts.59 
Amphibia.59 
Order Anura.59 
Family Pipidae.59 
Genus Xenopus .59 
Family Bufonidae.66 
Genus Mertensophryne . 75 
Genus Poyntonophrynus .76 
Genus Schismaderma .78 
Genus Sclerophrys .66 
Family Microhylidae.79 
Genus Phrynomantis .79 
Family Brevicipitidae.81 
Genus Breviceps . 81 
Family Hemisotidae.83 
Genus Hemisus .83 
Family Hyperoliidae.85 
GQxms Afrixalus .85 
Genus Cryptothylax .88 
Genus Hyperolius .89 
GQvms Kassina .116 
Family Arthroleptidae.118 
Genus Arthroleptis .118 
Genus Leptopelis .121 
Genus Trichobatrachus .127 
Family Ptychadenidae.128 
Genus Ptychadena .128 
Genus Hildebrandtia .142 
Family Phrynobatrachidae.144 
Genus Phrynobatrachus .144 
Family Pyxicephalidae.149 
Genus Amietia .149 
