Leptodactylodon boulengeri Nieden, 1910

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Astylosterninae > Genus: Leptodactylodon > Species: Leptodactylodon boulengeri

Leptodactylodon boulengeri Nieden, 1910, Arch. Naturgesch., 76: 242. Holotype: ZMB, according to R. Laurent In Amiet, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 22. Type locality: "Banjobezirk" (= Region of Banyo), Cameroon.

Arthroleptis (Arthroleptulus) boulengeriLaurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 87.

Leptodactylodon bamilekianus Amiet, 1971, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 7–8: 146. Holotype: JLA 70.929 (presumably now MHNG), by original designation. Type locality: "Batié", Cameroon. Synonymy by Amiet, 1981 "1980", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 27: 105.

Leptodactylodon boulengeri bamilekianus —  Herrmann, Böhme, Herrmann, Plath, Schmitz, and Solbach, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 72.

Common Names

Boulenger's Egg Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).

Distribution

Cameroon Range, in the submontane zone, western Cameroon, and adjacent southeastern Nigeria, 800–1450 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Nigeria

Comment

 Herrmann, Böhme, Herrmann, Plath, Schmitz, and Solbach, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 61–81, reported the species from Nkebe Waterfall and Nguéngué, southwestern Cameroon.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: 152. Mapouyat, Hirschfeld, Rödel, Liedtke, Loader, Gonwouo, Dahmen, Doherty-Bone, and Barej, 2014, Zootaxa, 3765: 29–53, reported on larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 252–253, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. 

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