Scotobleps Boulenger, 1900

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Astylosterninae > Genus: Scotobleps
1 species

Scotobleps Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 438. Type species: Scotobleps gabonicus Boulenger, 1900, by monotypy.

ScotoblebsDeckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 149. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Common Names

Gaboon Forest Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).

Gabon Forest Frogs (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 238).    

Distribution

Eastern Nigeria to Mayombe Hills (western Dem. Rep. Congo), through western and southwestern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and western Gabon; presumably in western Rep. Congo.

Comment

In Arthroleptini of Frost, 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: 234. Blackburn, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 49: 806-826, suggested that Scotobleps is only arguably placed as a member of Arthroleptini. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, considered Scotobleps to be in their Astylosterninae.  Griesbaum, Hirschfeld, Barej, Schmitz, Rohrmoser, Dahmen, Mühlberger, Liedtke, Gonwouo, Doumbia, and Rödel, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 133–160, described larval morphology. 

Contained taxa (1 sp.):

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