Cryptothylax greshoffii (Schilthuis, 1889)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Hyperoliinae > Genus: Cryptothylax > Species: Cryptothylax greshoffii

Hylambates greshoffii Schilthuis, 1889, Tijdschr. Nederl. Dierkd. Ver., Ser. 2, 2: 286. Type(s): Zoological Museum of the University of Utrecht, by original designation; now possibly in the RMNH according to M.S. Hoogmoed In Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 205. Type locality: "Boma (Congo, W. Africa)", Dem. Rep. Congo.

Cryptothylax greshoffiiLaurent and Combaz, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 43: 276.

English Names

Greshoff's Wax Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 66).

Distribution

Rainforest from south-central Cameroon through Equatorial Guinea, southwestern Central African Republic and Rep. Congo to northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo and northern Angola (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

Comment

See brief account in Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 448–449, and longer one by Laurent, 1976, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 213: 10–13. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 129, provided the Equatorial Guinea record. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21–34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Blackburn and Jackson, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 358, provided a record for Rep. Congo and discussed the range. Jackson and Blackburn, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 149–164, provided a record for Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Rep. Congo. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 160-165. See brief account and map by Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 90–91. Jongsma, Tobi, Dixon-MacCallum, Bamba-Kaya, Yoga, Mbega, Mve Beh, Emrich, and Blackburn, 2017, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 11 (1: e144): 12, provided a record for southeastern Gabon and briefly discussed habitat and range. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 88–89, provided a map for Angola and a brief account. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 258, doubted that this species is found in Angola. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 23, summarized the literature for Gabon. 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.: 148–149, 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. Kako-Wanzalire, Mongo, Ilonga, Mapoli, Mbumba, Neema, Tungaluna, Itoka, and Bogaert, 2021, Tropicultura, 39 (1: 1709): 1–19, briefly discussed habitat preference in north-central  Dem. Rep. Congo. Badjedjea, Masudi, Akaibe, and Gvoždík, 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16 (1: e301): 52, commented on a population from the Kokolopori Bonobo Nature Reserve, Tshuapa Province, Dem. Rep. Congo. 

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