Astylosternus batesi (Boulenger, 1900)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Astylosterninae > Genus: Astylosternus > Species: Astylosternus batesi

Gampsosteonyx batesi Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 442. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation. By museum records this specimen is BMNH 1947.2.30.84 (formerly 1900.2.17.61). Type locality: "Benito River", elsewhere in the original publication noted to be "Benito River, north of the Gaboon River between 20 and 30 miles inland from the coast, Gaboon", Equatorial Guinea.

Dilobates platycephalus Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 444. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation; originally BMNH 1900.2.7.136, now numbered BMNH 1947.2.7.34 according to museum records. Type locality: "Benito River", elsewhere in the original publication suggested to be "Benito River, north of the Gaboon River between 20 and 30 miles inland from the coast, Gaboon", Equatorial Guinea. Synonymy with Gampsosteonyx batesi by Boulenger, 1903, Mem. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 1: 61–64.

Astylosternus batesi — Parker, 1931, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 7: 495.

English Names

Benito River Night Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).

Bates' Night Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 232).

Distribution

Cameroon south of Sanaga River, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, southwestern Central African Republic, and Mayombe Hills of extreme western Dem. Rep. Congo, sea level to 1000 m elevation.

Comment

In the Astylosternus diadematus group of Amiet, 1978 "1977", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 23–24: 99–227. Removed from the synonymy of Astylosternus diadematus by Amiet, 1978 "1977", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 23–24: 99, where it had been placed by Parker, 1936, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 135–166. Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 150, recognized this species without comment on Parker's earlier action. Gabon record provided by Lötters, Gossmann, Obame, and Böhme, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 23. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21–34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 89–90, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Jongsma, Tobi, Dixon-MacCallum, Bamba-Kaya, Yoga, Mbega, Mve Beh, Emrich, and Blackburn, 2017, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 11 (1: e144): 6, provided a record for southeastern Gabon and briefly discussed habitat and range. Griesbaum, Hirschfeld, Barej, Schmitz, Rohrmoser, Dahmen, Mühlberger, Liedtke, Gonwouo, Doumbia, and Rödel, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 133–160, redescribed larval morphology. Larson and Zimkus, 2018, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 13: 244–245, briefly discussed the populations in Gabon. Deichmann, Mulcahy, Vanthomme, Tobi, Wynn, Zimkus, and McDiarmid, 2017, PLoS One, 12 (11: e0187283): 14, provided molecular evidence for Astylosternus batesi being a species complex or that identifications need to be verified. Dewynter, Chirio, Melki, Cordier, and Frétey, 2017, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 11: 9, provided a brief account and photographs of this species from the Mount Koumouna-Bouali area of Gabon. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 10, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 46). Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 232–233, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See brief account, range map, and photographs for Equatorial Guinea in Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 137–230.   

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