Amietia wittei

Amietia wittei (common names: Molo frog, De Witte's river frog) is a species of frog in the family Pyxicephalidae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania,[1][2][3] including Mount Elgon in the Kenya/Uganda border.[1][3] Its type locality is in Molo, Kenya, located near the top of the Mau Escarpment.[2][3] The specific name wittei honours Gaston-François de Witte, a Belgian naturalist.[4]

Amietia wittei

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pyxicephalidae
Genus: Amietia
Species:
A. wittei
Binomial name
Amietia wittei
(Angel, 1924)
Synonyms[2]
  • Phrynobatrachus Wittei Angel, 1924
  • Rana wittei (Angel, 1924)
  • Afrana wittei (Angel, 1924)

Description

Adult males reach 55 mm (2.2 in) and adult females 87 mm (3.4 in) in snout–urostyle length. The dorsal ground colour is a dark brown, becoming lighter on the flanks and yellowish on to the belly. The dorsolateral folds are black, and so are many of the elongated warts on the back. A row of irregular dark blotches runs from the groin towards the tympanum. Some specimens have a pale (bright green) vertebral stripe. The upper lip is uniformly dark or marbled; a pale (coppery) band above the upper lip extends between the tympanum and eye, touching the eye. The lower lip is marbled.[3]

Habitat and conservation

Amietia wittei is a locally common species inhabiting montane grasslands at elevations of 1,100–3,300 m (3,600–10,800 ft) above sea level. It is associated with streams and can be found in areas of low-intensity agriculture. It is suffering from some habitat loss and deterioration caused by expanding human settlements, wood collection, and logging. It occurs in several national parks: Aberdare and Mount Kenya National Parks in Kenya, Mount Elgon National Park in Kenya/Uganda, and Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania.[1]

gollark: Apparently the "RMT" (remote control interface) thing it has might be helpful: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/api-reference/peripherals/rmt.html
gollark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSiRkpgwVKY (with an ESP8266 though).
gollark: I think I read that the ESP32's I²S hardware could do something vaguely PWM-like up to 80MHz.
gollark: I don't know *that* much. It just seems like it might require a lot of routing table entries on every node to work.
gollark: Based on skimming the disaster radio routing protocol bit, it doesn't really have any defenses against malicious devices fiddling with routing, and may scale poorly (not sure exactly how the routing tables work).

References
  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2017). "Amietia wittei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T58191A113502710. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T58191A113502710.en.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Amietia wittei (Angel, 1924)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  3. Channing, A.; Dehling, J.M.; Lötters, S. & Ernst, R. (2016). "Species boundaries and taxonomy of the African river frogs (Amphibia: Pyxicephalidae: Amietia)". Zootaxa. 4155 (1): 1–76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4155.1.1. PMID 27615865.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. pp. 56, 234. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
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