Alan Channing

Alan Channing, South African herpetologist

Department of Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Mkonyi, F.J., Negalason, W., Msuya, C.A., Howell, K.M. & Channing, A. 2004. Probreviceps loveridgei, Probreviceps uluguruensis and Probreviceps macrodactylus (Loveridge's forest frog, Uluguru forest frog, long-fingered forest frog) advertisement calls. Herpetological Review 35: 261–262. Reference page.
Turner, de Villiers, Dawood, and Channing, 2004, A new species of Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926 (Anura: Ranidae) from the Groot Winterhoek Mountains of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Afr. J. Herpetol., 53 (1): 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2004.9635493 Reference page.

Msuya, C.A., Howell, K.M. & Channing, A. 2007. "2006". A new species of Running Frog, (Kassina, Anura: Hyperoliidae) from Unguja Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology 55: 113–122. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2006.9635544 Reference page.

Channing, A. 2012. A new species of rain frog from Namaqualand, South Africa (Anura: Brevicipitidae: Breviceps). Zootaxa 3381(1): 62–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3381.1.4 Reference page.
Viertel, B., Veith, M., Schick, S., Channing, A., Kigoolo, S., Baeza-Urrea, O., Sinsch, U. & Lötters, S. 2012. The stream-dwelling larva of the Ruwenzori River Frog, Amietia ruwenzorica, its buccal cavity and pathology of chytridiomycosis. Zootaxa 3400: 43–57. Preview Reference page.

Wasonga, D.V. & Channing, A. 2013. Identification of sand frogs (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) from Kenya with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 3734(2): 221–240. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.7 Reference page.
Channing, A., Hillers, A., Lötters, S., Rödel, M.-O., Schick, S., Conradie, W., Rödder, D., Mercurio, V., Wagner, P., Dehling, J.M., Du Preez, L.H., Kielgast, J. & Burger, M. 2013. Taxonomy of the super-cryptic Hyperolius nasutus group of long reed frogs of Africa (Anura: Hyperoliidae), with descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa 3620(3): 301–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.1 Reference page.
Channing, A., Schmitz, A., Burger, M. & Kielgast, J. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of African dainty frogs, with the description of four new species (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Cacosternum). Zootaxa 3701(5): 518–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.5.2 Reference page.

Channing, A. 2015. The Maluti Mystery revisited: Taxonomy of African River Frogs (Pyxicephalidae, Amietia) on the Drakensberg Mountains in southern Africa. Zootaxa 3925(2): 271–280. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.8 Reference page.
Van der Merwe, E., Miklasz, K., Channing, A., Maneveldt, G.W. & Gabrielson, P.W. 2015. DNA sequencing resolves species of Spongites (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Northeast Pacific and South Africa, including S. agulhensis sp. nov.. Phycologia 54(5): 471–490. DOI: 10.2216/15-38.1 PDF Reference page.

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. Reference page.

Channing, A., Measey, G.J., de Villiers, A.L., Turner, A.A. & Tolley, K.A. 2017. Taxonomy of the Capensibufo rosei Group (Anura: Bufonidae) from South Africa. Zootaxa 4232(2): 282–292. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.11 Reference page.
Turner, A. & Channing, A. 2017. Three new species of Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926 (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) from the Cape Fold Mountains, South Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 66(1): 53–78. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2017.1324918 Reference page.

Channing, A. & Willems, F. 2018. A new grass frog with rupicolous tadpoles from northern Zambia (Anura: Ptychadenidae). Zootaxa 4462(3): 349–366. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.3.3 Reference page.

Wilson, L. & Channing, A. 2019. A New Sand Frog from Namaqualand, South Africa (Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna). Zootaxa 4609(2): 225–246. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.2. Reference page.

Channing, A. & Du Preez, L.H. 2020. Taxonomic status of the cryptic sand frog, Tomopterna cryptotis (Anura, Pyxicephalidae). Alytes 37(3-4): 1–21. [1] Reference page.

Willems, F. & Channing, A. 2023. The status of Tomopterna pulchra Boulenger, 1896 (Anura: Pyxicephalidae). Zootaxa 5374(3): 361–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.3.3 Reference page.

Channing, A., Pietersen, D.W. & Dawood, A. 2025. Digging out another cryptic species: A new sand frog (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) from Mozambique. Zootaxa 5584(1): 26–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.1.2 Reference page.