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ly a misidentification as today the recognized 
distribution of this species is restricted to west¬ 
ern Africa. It is possible that the Cabinda frog 
may be referable to Phrynobatrachus auritus 
Boulenger, 1900. 
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Map 96. Distribution of Phrynobatrachus plicatus in 
Angola. 
Family Pyxicephalidae Bonaparte, 1850 
Genus Amietia Dubois, 1987 
Amietia angolensis (Bocage, 1866) Angola River Frog 
Rana angolensis Bocage 1866b:73. Lectotype: MBL T.8-94 designated by implieation by Ferret (1976a: 18), 
having listed syntype as holotype. Destroyed by fire 18 Mareh 1978. Type loeality: “Duque de Braganga” 
(Boeage 1866b:73), [= Calandula] Malanje Provinee, Angola. 
Rana angolensis: Boeage (1866a:54; 1866b:73, 1887e:211, 1895a:158, 1897a:203) Ferreira (1903:111), 
Boulenger (1882:50, 1905:108), Themido (1941:2), Laurent (1964a: 132), Ferret (1976a: 18), Cei (1977:16, 
17), Poynton and Broadley (1985b: 131), Frost (1985:480), Gavetti and Andreone (1993:91), 
Poynton and Haaeke (1993:14), Drewes and Vindum (1994:64), Ruas (1996:23, 2002:143), Largen 
(2001:331). 
Rana Delalandi: Boeage (1870:68). 
Rana ehapini: Noble (1924:214). 
Rana {Rana) angolensis: Monard (1937a: 43, 1938:99). 
Rana fuseigula angolensis: Loveridge (1933:362, 1936b:410, 1953a:365, 1957:339), Sehmidt (1936:128), 
Mertens (1937a: 19, 1938a:426), Parker (1939:141), Laurent (1950a: 14, 1954a:71), Hellmieh 
(1957a:25). 
Rana fuseigula: Inger (1959:540), Sehmidt and Inger (1959:48). 
Afrana angolensis: Channing (2001:255), Channing and Howell (2009:250), Piekersgill (2007a:98), Fretey et 
al. (2011:42). 
Amietia angolensis: Channing et al. (2012:318), Channing and Baptista (2013:501), Frost (2016), Channing 
et al. (2016:15). 
Amietia ef angolensis: Ceriaeo et al. (2016a:20). 
Global conservation status (lUCN): Least Concern. 
Global distribution: The species is known from western central Africa, extending from south¬ 
ern Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo south through Angola and possibly in the 
Caprivi Strip of Namibia. 
