- Bufo laevis Daudin, 1802
- Xenopus boiei Wagler, 1827
- Xenopus laevis Steindachner, 1867
Etymology
laevis: from Latin: l(a)evis = smooth (skin)
Type material and localities
Types: frog figured on p. 82, pl. 30, fig. 1 of the original, and noted to be in the MNHNP, but lost now. Type Locality: unknown.
Native country records from Angola, Botswana, Cameroun, Centrafrique, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Moçambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Limits are: NORTH: Sudan: Jabal Marrah (mts) (13°30'N, 24°E) — SOUTH: South Africa: Perly Beach (bch) (34°40'S, 19°31'E) — WEST: Nigeria: Rahama (10°25'N, 08°41'E) — EAST: Tanzania: Amani (05°06'S, 38°38'E).
Records outside native range from Chile, Portugal, France, Italia, Saint Helena, UK, USA.
References
- Daudin, François Marie (1802/1803): Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds. - , Bertrandet & Levrault, Paris, 108 pp.
- Steindachner, Franz (1867): Amphibien. - Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. Von Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Aus der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, in Commission bei Karl Gerold's Sohn, Wien, Zoologischer Theil: Bd 1: Wirbelthiere, Amphibien.
- Wagler, Johann Georg (1827): [Xenopus boiei]. - Isis (von Oken), Jena, 20: 726.
