Hylambates leonardi Boulenger, 1906

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Kassininae > Genus: Hylambates > Species: Hylambates leonardi

Hylambates leonardi Boulenger, 1906 "1905", Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 2: 167. Syntypes: 2 specimens, MSNG and BMNH 1947.2.20.8 (formerly 1906.3.30.156 by museum records); MSNG 29945 designated lectotype by Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 218. Type locality: "Punta Frailes, Fernando Po" (= Bioko, Equatorial Guinea) and "N'Djolè, French Congo [= Ndjolé, Gabon]"; restricted to "Punta Frailes", Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, by Mertens, 1938, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 442: 22; restricted to "N'Djolè", Gabon, by lectotype designation. See comment by Frétey, Dubois, and Ohler, 2014, Alytes, 30: 42. 

Phlyctimantis leonardi — Laurent and Combaz, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 43: 274.

Hylambates leonardi — Guibé and Lamotte, 1958, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 53: 269; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 223. 

Kassina (Phlyctimantis) leonardi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 223.

Common Names

Olive Striped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).

Distribution

Rainforests of west-central Africa from Congo drainage of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rep. Congo, and western Dem. Rep. Congo; presumably in the Cabinda enclave of Angola (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Angola

Comment

See comment under Phlyctimantis verrucosus. Reviewed by Perret, 1986, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 109: 19–26. Laurent, 1976, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 213: 21–23, provided and account. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 130, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea. Frétey and Blanc, 2002 "2001", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 383, reported this species from Gabon. See comment under Phlyctimantis boulengeri. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21–34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Gvoždík and Kopecký, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 98, provided a record for Cameroon and commented on the range. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 424–431.. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 319–320, provided a brief account and map. Jongsma, Tobi, Dixon-MacCallum, Bamba-Kaya, Yoga, Mbega, Mve Beh, Emrich, and Blackburn, 2017, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 11 (1: e144): 14, provided records for southeastern Gabon and briefly discussed habitat and range. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 258, doubted that this species will be found in Angola. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 30, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 59). As the ranges seem to be highly provisional, it seems that the ranges of and the boundary between and the populations within Phlyctimantis leonardi and Phlyctimantis boulengeri need to be assayed at a molecular basis to determine how many lineages and the ranges that compose both nominal species (DRF). Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 30, summarized the literature for Gabon. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 132–133, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See brief account, range map, and photographs (as Phlyctimantis cf. leonardi) for Equatorial Guinea in Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 137–230, who suggested that the complex needs revision.

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