Xenopus allofraseri Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pipidae > Subfamily: Dactylethrinae > Genus: Xenopus > Species: Xenopus allofraseri

Xenopus (Xenopus) allofraseri Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 30. Holotype: CAS 207765, by original designation. Type locality: "Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Bioko Island, Bioko Sur Province, Arena Blanca road, N 3.5275°, E 8.5793°, ~30 m". Zoobank publication registration: F9F51F48-7477-4AEB-90B8-4388142D1577

English Names

False Fraser's Clawed Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Definitely know only from two distantly isolated populations: Bioko Island and immediate coast (Equatorial Guinea) and along the Atlantic coastal region of Cameroon as well as a population in extreme western Dem. Rep. Congo; presumably to extend in the intervening areas of Gabon and Rep. Congo; likely in Cabinda Enclave, Angola.  

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Angola, Congo, Republic of the, Gabon

Comment

In the Xenopus amieti group, and previously confused with Xenopus fraseri, according to the original publication. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 42–43, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map (which included coastal Rep. Congo and Gabon). See brief account and range map 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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