Sechellophryne pipilodryas (Gerlach and Willi, 2002)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Sooglossidae > Genus: Sechellophryne > Species: Sechellophryne pipilodryas

Sooglossus pipilodryas Gerlach and Willi, 2002, Amphibia-Reptilia, 23: 452. Holotype: UMZ 2001.1.1, by original designation. Type locality: "Mon Plaisir (in Phoenicophorium borsigianum axil, below Mt Dauban at approximately 700 m altitude), Silhouette, Seychelles".

Sechellophryne pipilodryasNussbaum and Wu, 2007, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 46: 327.

Leptosooglossus pipilodryasvan der Meijden, Boistel, Gerlach, Ohler, Vences, and Meyer, 2007, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 91: 355.

English Names

Seychelles Palm Frog (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 542).  

Distribution

Palm-rich rainforest forests from 125-600 m elevation, Silhouette Island, Seychelles.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Seychelles

Endemic: Seychelles

Comment

See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Sooglossus pipilodryas) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 542. Gerlach, 2015, Phelsuma, 23: 6–18, reported on advertisement call.

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