Sclerophrys pusilla
Creators: name: Conradie, Werner
name: Keates, Chad
name: Verburgt, Luke
name: Baptista, Ninda L.
name: Harvey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Bufonidae
Sclerophrys
Sclerophrys pusilla

description: Sclerophrys pusilla (Mertens, 1937)
Flat-backed Toad (Fig. 9; Map 8)
Material (41 specimens): PEM A12425–6, INBAC (no number), Cunde waterfall, -13.77364° 18.75514°, 1,287 m asl; PEM A12434, south of Menongue en route to Cuebe River, -14.96288° 17.69090°, 1,319 m asl; PEM A12446, Cuchi River gorge, -14.59000° 16.90758°, 1,375 m asl; PEM A12494, HALO Menongue, -14.66317° 17.66521°, 1,386 m asl; PEM A12499, INBAC (no number), drive back from Cuchi to Menongue, -14.67986° 17.17512°, 1,404 m asl; PEM A12623–4, HALO Cuito, -12.39584° 16.96067°, 1,697 m asl; PEM A12630–1, roadside ditch 10 km SW of Cuito, -12.44815° 16.88118°, 1,742 m asl; PEM A12636, Quembo River source camp, -13.52653° 19.28368°, 1,242 m asl; PEM A12640, Cuanavale River, -13.37406° 18.99269°, 1,297 m asl; PEM A12642, Cuanavale River, -13.29236° 18.96283°, 1,313 m asl; PEM A 12650–1, Kwanza River bridge, -11.99348° 17.66965°, 1,273 m asl; PEM A12652, Kuvango Hydro Plant Site, wetland to east, -14.38755° 16.30166°, 1,451 m asl; PEM A12658, old Kuvango Hydroplant site, -14.38775° 16.29365°, 1,440 m asl; PEM A12659–60, Campsite 2 near Cuvango Mission, -13.32887 16.41167, 1,537 m asl; PEM A12668, Campsite 1 below rapids, west of Fundo village, -13.04483° 16.37520°, 1,565 m asl; PEM A12680, Camp 3, Malova Village, Mipanha River, -14.09140° 16.41476°, 1,553 m asl; PEM A12686- 7, Huambo HALO training camp, -12.73726° 15.81828°, 1,665 m asl; PEM A12690, Cubango 2017 launch site, -12.61700° 16.22132°, 1,727 m asl; PEM A12839, 31 km W of Menongue, Cueli River, -14.70511° 17.38014°, 1,392 m asl; PEMA 13791, Dam/Hydroplant on Cuquema River, -12.42556° 16.81856°, 1,640 m asl; PEMA 14681– 2, Menongue, -14.63015° 17.63465°, 1,373 m asl; PEM A14720–1, 14725, Quembo River bridge, -13.52746° 19.28060°, 1,241 m asl; PEM A14745–7, Quembo River bridge camp, -13.52746° 19.28060°, 1,241 m asl; PEM A17761–2, Quembo River right side tributary (Micongo River) past village, -13.51877° 19.28487°, 1,478 m asl. Description: Medium sized toad; sharp snout profile; small flattened parotoid glands. Light brown dorsal coloration, with irregular darker markings; no interorbital bar; thin light dorsal stripe may be present; no red markings on the back of the thighs. Males with darkened throats; dorsum with black tipped asperites. Adult females (n = 16) varied from 52.1–79.3 (65.9) mm (largest female: PEM A14745); adult males (n = 9) varied from 35.5–58.7 (50.3) mm (largest male: PEM A12839). Habitat and natural history notes: Found in miombo woodland, sympatric with S. gutturalis. Comments: Poynton et al. (2016) recently split West Africa S. maculata from central and southern African S. pusilla. All the historical Angolan material referred to under the former name, S. maculata, now represents S. pusilla.
description: Published as part of Conradie, Werner, Keates, Chad, Verburgt, Luke, Baptista, Ninda L. & Harvey, James, 2023, Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango- Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 3: Amphibians, pp. 19-56 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 325) (e 325) 17 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761936