Arthroleptis aureoli (Schiøtz, 1964)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Arthroleptinae > Genus: Arthroleptis > Species: Arthroleptis aureoli

Cardioglossa aureoli Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 26. Holotype: ZMUC R.075881, by original designation. Type locality: "Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone".

Arthroleptis aureoliBlackburn, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 49: 819.

English Names

Freetown Long-fingered Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).

Mount Aureol Squeaker (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 254).

Distribution

Freetown Peninsula north through western Sierra Leone into neighboring Guinea. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guinea, Sierra Leone

Comment

Perhaps allied to Cardioglossa nigromaculata Nieden, with which it was compared by Schiøtz in his description, according to Amiet, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 16. Blackburn, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 154: 624, suggested that molecular evidence places this species outside of Cardioglossa and more closely related to other arthroleptid species. Blackburn, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 49: 819, transferred the species to Arthroleptis. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 147. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 254–255, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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