- Amphibian Species of the World on Twitter
- What is the right name?
- Curator's blog
- Running log of additions and changes, 2023
- Logs of changes and additions, 2014–2022
- How to cite
- How to use
- History of the project, 1980 to 2023
- Comments on amphibian taxonomy relating to versions 3.0 to 6.1 (2004 to 2023)
- Scientific Nomenclature and Its Discontents
- Structure of the taxonomic records
- Contributors and reviewers for Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1985)
- Contributors, online editions
- Versions
- Museum abbreviations
- Links to useful amphibian systematic, conservation, collection management, informational, and/or regional sites
- Links to useful FREE library sites
- Copyright and terms of use
Sclerophrys gracilipes (Boulenger, 1899)
Bufo gracilipes Boulenger, 1899, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 3: 276. Holotype: BMNH 1899.4.24.9 (now 1947.2.21.93), according to Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 46, and museum records. Type locality: "Benito River, French [Congo] [sic]", Equatorial Guinea.
Bufo funereus gracilipes — Perret and Mertens, 1957, Rev. Suisse Zool., 64: 73–78.
Bufo petiti Knoepffler, 1967, Biol. Gabonica, 3: 249. Holotype: MBG (Mission Biologique au Gabon—Centre national de la recherche scientifique) 1299, by original designation; current location unknown. Type locality: "Loa-loa (Ogooué-Ivindo), République Gabonaise". Synonymy by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158, 163.
Bufo gracilipes — Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 25.
Amietophrynus gracilipes — 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: 363.
Sclerophrys garmani — Ohler and Dubois, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e1553): 9.
English Names
French Congo Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41).
Distribution
Southeastern Nigeria eastward through southern Cameroon, Gabon, to northern Rep. Congo and northern and northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo; Bioko and mainland Equatorial Guinea; likely to occur in southwestern Central African Republic and the Cabinda enclave of Angola.
Comment
Easily confused with Bufo funereus (e.g., Boulenger, 1906 "1905", Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 2: 158) and Bufo latifrons, according to Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 315; and Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 25. In the Bufo gracilipes group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158. Frétey and Blanc, 2002 "2001", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 380, reported this species from Gabon. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21–34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 16, provided records for Nigeria. Jackson and Blackburn, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 149–164, provided a record for Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Rep. Congo. Jongsma, Tobi, Dixon-MacCallum, Bamba-Kaya, Yoga, Mbega, Mve Beh, Emrich, and Blackburn, 2017, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 11 (1: e144): 8–9, provided records for southeastern Gabon and briefly discussed habitat and range. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 17, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 52). Mali, Banda, Chifundera, Badjedjea, Sebe, Lokasola, Ewango, Tungaluna, and Akaibe, 2019, Am. J. Zool., 2: 38–43, reported the species from the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 70–71, 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. A similar but unnamed species from Uigé Province of northwestern Angola, was noted by Ernst, Lautenschläger, Branquima, and Hölting, 2020, Zoosyst. Evol., 96: 253. Kako-Wanzalire, Mongo, Ilonga, Mapoli, Mbumba, Neema, Tungaluna, Itoka, and Bogaert, 2021, Tropicultura, 39 (1: 1709): 1–19, briefly discussed habitat preference in Tshopo, north-central Dem. Rep. Congo.
External links:
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
- For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist
- For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.