Conraua robusta Nieden, 1908

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Conrauidae > Genus: Conraua > Species: Conraua robusta

Conraua robusta Nieden, 1908, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 3: 497. Holotype: ZMB. Type locality: "Kamerun".

Rana (Conraua) niedeni Parker, 1936, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 138. Replacement name for Conraua robusta Nieden, 1908, preoccupied by Rana robusta Blyth, 1854, when in Rana.

Rana robustaParker, 1936, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 138.

Conraua robustaLamotte and Perret, 1968, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 30: 1603-1644.

Common Names

Robust Giant Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 350).

Cameroon Slippery Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Distribution

Hills and mountains of western Cameroon (excluding Mount Cameroon) into adjacent eastern Nigeria on the Bamileke Plateau, 750-1400 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Nigeria

Comment

See Lamotte and Perret, 1968, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 30: 1603-1644, and Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 333-335, for accounts. 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: 478. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 263–264, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 350–351, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Blackburn, Nielsen, Barej, Doumbia, Hirschfeld, Kouamé, Lawson, Loader, Ofori-Boateng, Stanley, and Rödel, 2020, Zool. Scripta, 49: 684–696, placed the species phylogenetically as the sister taxon of Conraua goliath and discussed biogeography. 

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