[Jack Lester]

Hi all,

Thank you all for contributing to these IDs! I have been very fascinated by all of your thoughts and appreciate it.  I feel like I need to provide some habitat and spatial information for these individuals.  First of all I would like to introduce myself. I have been interested in amphibians since I was very young.  After a ten year break from undergrad, my persistent interest in amphibians brought me back to school to resume my studies with a focus on biology and herpetology. During this time I went on a herpetology/primatology trip to huang shan, china.  I had hoped to see chinese giant salamanders there, but instead met my future wife. She was an aspiring primatologist working on her masters.  During this time we both developed a passion for each other's interests.  This led to multiple research rips to Uganda to study chimpanzees in human dominated landscapes, though we always kept an eye out for the herps.  We even attempted to do a species inventory during our tenure at one site (which is where many of these photos come from).  Now I am currently getting my PhD in primatology, but my first passion in biology will always be amphibians.  Sorry for the long bio, I guess I felt like I needed to explain my passion for herps even though I am now working in primatology.

Habitat and location info:

 Sclerophrys regularis, S. gutturalis, and the ones labelled as Phrynobatrachus parvulus/ scheffleri/ natalensis? were all collected in the puddle formed from the village borehole.  We had a shower room with a drain pipe that exited the house through the wall. We actually had a guttural toad that would often occupy that pipe and use the acoustics of the pipe and shower room to amplify his call which would reverberate throughout our house.  

The Amietia individuals were observed and collected from a  system of streams in a forest fragment about 2km south of budongo forest reserve.  Though the forest was a riverine strip, these were often found under dense canopy along the banks of the stream and not outside the forest. I had thought they were A. angolensis, but perhaps this genus has been and is currently undergoing some resolution through genetic analyses. Also, my field guide was undoubtedly outdated.  The individual suggested as "Ptychadena mascareniensis?" was collected in the same forest strip.  

The two rocket frog species were collected along the road that bordered the riverine forest.

The one that has been suggested to be  Phrynobatrachus sp. was observed in the Budongo forest reserve near the Sonso camp.  I wish I had provided some kind of scale in all of the pictures, especially that one.  

The one identified as "Cardioglossa cyaneospila?" was seen in a small remnant swamp forest fragment adjacent to a papyrus swamp in Hoima district about 15km south of Budongo.  Though this forest was tiny, it was very popular with the resident chimp community, at least while we were conducting a study in that area.

"Afrixalus quadrivittatus/laevis?" and "Leptopelis kivuensis"  were found in various forest fragments across the region between Bugoma and Budongo forest reserves.  We found numerous Leptopelis individuals with a variety of coloration, but didn't always have the means to photograph them.  

Anyway, please let me know if there are any further questions and we will post some more pictures if I can find them.  Thanks again! Oh and I'll attach one more picture. 

Best, 

Jack 

[Greenbaum, Eli B]

​Looks like that final photo is another Phryno natalensis-like frog.  Thanks for sharing all of this and best of luck with your chimp work.  My Ph.D. student Danny Hughes plans to be in Uganda this summer- perhaps you will cross paths.

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[Václav Gvoždík]

Hi All,
just a small addition to the 'conference' ...I think that "Cardioglossa" is really a Cardioglossa, let's say C. cf. leucomystax. Proportions of the frog do not seem to me like of a juvenile Amnirana. My guess is that it is a subadult C. cf. leucomystax. Then, it would be the first record of the genus from Uganda.

"Ptychadena oxyrhynchus" may really be Ptychadena oxyrhynchus, I think.
Best,
Vasek

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[David Blackburn]

I do think that it might be Cardioglossa leucomystax but it is incredibly difficult to tell based on this photo. However, the genus is already known from Uganda based on recent records of C. cyaneospila around Bwindi (see attached note).

Dave

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