Wolterstorffina parvipalmata (Werner, 1898)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Wolterstorffina > Species: Wolterstorffina parvipalmata

Nectophryne parvipalmata Werner, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 201. Holotype: ZMB according to Roux, 1906, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906: 61. Type locality: "Kamerun?".

Wolterstorffina parvipalmataMertens, 1939, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 7: 123.

Common Names

Montane Forest Tree Toad (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 94).

Cameroon Wolterstorff Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Distribution

Eastern Nigeria on the Obudu Plateau and on the western and southern slopes of the Cameroon Range (including Mount Cameroon) and Yaoundé Hills in Cameroon; Bioko I., Equatorial Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria

Comment

Discussed by Perret, 1972, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 11: 93-119. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 22-23, provided records for Nigeria. Herrmann, Böhme, Herrmann, Plath, Schmitz, and Solbach, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 61–81, reported the species from 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: 207. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 164–165, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 94–95, 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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