- What is Amphibian Species of the World?
- How to cite
- How to use
- Structure of the taxonomic records
- Running log of additions and changes, 2025
- Logs of changes and additions, 2014–2024
- What is the right name?
- Curator's blog
- History of the project, 1980 to 2024
- Comments on amphibian taxonomy relating to versions 3.0 to 6.2 (2004 to 2024)
- Scientific Nomenclature and its Discontents: Comments by Frost on Rules and Philosophy of Taxonomy, Ranks, and Their Applications
- Contributors, online editions
- Contributors and reviewers for Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1985)
- 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
Xenopus andrei Loumont, 1983
Xenopus andrei Loumont, 1983, Rev. Suisse Zool., 90: 170. Holotype: MHNG 2088.32, by original designation. Type locality: "Longyi (Nord de Kribi)", southern Cameroon.
Xenopus (Xenopus) andrei — Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 13.
Common Names
Andre's Clawed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).
Distribution
Known with confidence only from a few localities in southern Cameroon, northeastern Gabon and western Central African Republic, as well as northwestern Angola; presumably in intervening Equatorial Guinea, Rep. Congo, and Dem. Rep. Congo.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon
Likely/Controversially Present: Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Equatorial Guinea
Comment
One of a group of cryptic species resembling Xenopus fraseri but distinguished from it by chromosome number (2n = 72) and mating call. See Kobel, Loumont, and Tinsley, 1996, in Tinsley and Kobel (eds.), Biol. Xenopus: 9-33, for account. Ernst, Schmitz, Wagner, Branquima, and Hölting, 2015, Salamandra, 51: 147–155, discussed the range, previous records that are questionable due to the great morphological similarity to Xenopus fraseri, and provided a spot map. In the Xenopus amieti group of Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 29. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 59, provided a map for Angola and discussed its literature. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 35, summarized the literature for Gabon. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 44–45, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Ernst, Lautenschläger, Branquima, and Hölting, 2020, Zoosyst. Evol., 96: 246, noted the species to occur in Uigé Province of northwestern Angola. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 144, excluded this from the fauna of Equatorial Guinea.
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 access to general information see Wikipedia
- For additional sources of general information from other websites search Google
- For access to relevant technical literature search Google Scholar
- 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 information on distribution, habitat, and conservation see the Map of Life
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observations see iNaturalist