Leptodactylodon ovatus Andersson, 1903

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

Leptodactylodon ovatus Andersson, 1903, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 53: 141. Syntypes: NHMG (10 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Kamerun".

Leptodactylodon ovatus ovatusParker, 1936, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 147-148.

Leptodactylodon ovatusPerret, 1959, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 82: 249. Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 383.

Leptodactylodon ornatus orientalis Amiet, 1971, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 7–8: 144. Holotype: MHNG 2031.4 (formerly JLA 70.895) according to Schätti, Perret, and Mariaux, 2002, Cat. Comm. Types Amph. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve, Vers. 4.0 (Jan. 2002): 13. Type locality: "Nkondjock, env. 500 m", Cameroon. Synonymy by Ohler, 1999, Alytes, 17: 79.

Leptodactylodon ovatus orientalisOhler, 1999, Alytes, 17: 79.

Common Names

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

Yellow-snouted Egg Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 252).

Distribution

Extreme southeastern Nigeria and adjacent western Cameroon, below 800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Nigeria

Comment

Distinction from Leptodactylus ovatus demonstrated by Perret, 1959, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 82: 248-249; and Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 383-384. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 49, provided records for Nigeria. Herrmann, Böhme, Herrmann, Plath, Schmitz, and Solbach, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 61–81, reported the species from Nkebe Waterfall and Nguéngué, southwestern Cameroon. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 610. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 102–103, reported on comparative tadpole morphology as did Mapouyat, Hirschfeld, Rödel, Liedtke, Loader, Gonwouo, Dahmen, Doherty-Bone, and Barej, 2014, Zootaxa, 3765: 29–53. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 252–253, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. 

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