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- Title
A MOLECULAR STUDY OF DELALANDE'S SAND FROG (TOMOPTERNA DELALANDII) FINDS ANOTHER CRYPTIC SPECIES.
- Authors
Channing, Alan; Wilson, Lyle
- Abstract
Delalande's Sand Frog extends from St Francis Bay in the east, to Cape Town in the West, and Springbok in the north of South Africa. A phylogeny of the genus shows that the extreme northern population does not cluster with those elsewhere. This population differs by advertisement call, 16S rRNA sequence and consistent differences in adult morphology from the southern form. Haplotype networks of mitochondrial and nuclear genes show that the northern populations are distinct from Tomopterna delalandii and all other described taxa, and represent a new species. We are happy to name the new Namaqua Sand Frog for Bill Branch.
- Subjects
CAPE Town (South Africa); NAMAQUALAND (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; FROGS; SAND; SPECIES; RIBOSOMAL RNA; PHYLOGENY; GENE regulatory networks
- Publication
African Herp News, 2019, Issue 72, p52
- ISSN
1017-6187
- Publication type
Article