Arthroleptis lameerei De Witte, 1921

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

Arthroleptis lameerei De Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 12. Syntypes: MRAC (5 specimens) according to Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 19. Type locality: "Lofoi (Katanga)", southeastern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Schoutedenella muta De Witte, 1933, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 24: 101. Syntypes: MRAC 16219–49, according to XXX, and including BMNH 1947.2.5.89–91 according to museum records. Type locality: "Katanga . . . : Kando (près Tenke)". Synonymy by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 127.

Schoutedenella lameeriDe Witte, 1933, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 24: 97–103. Laurent, 1954, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 23: 74; Laurent and Fabrezi, 1986 "1985", Alytes, 4: 82; by implication.

Arthroleptis (Arthroleptis) lameeriLaurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 85. Misspelling.

Schoutedenella mutaLaurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 89.

Schoutedenella lameeri lameeriLaurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 39.

Schoutedenella lameeri mutaLaurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 39.

Arthroleptis lameeri lameereiLaurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274–275, by implication.

Arthroleptis lameeri mutaLaurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274–275, by implication.

Arthroleptis lameereiFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 366.

Common Names

Katanga Screeching Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).

Lameer's Squeaker (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 50).

Distribution

Northeastern Angola to western Burundi, through southern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Zambia

Comment

Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 127 (on the basis of a huge sample) considered Arthroleptis muta and Arthroleptis lameeri to be synonyms (and juveniles) of Arthroleptis globosa, an arrangement doubted by Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 146. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 50, provided a brief account. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 118–119, provided a map and brief account for Angola. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 256–257, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 65, specifically excluded this species from the fauna of Rwanda.    

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