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Schistometopum ephele Taylor, 1965
Schistometopum ephele Taylor, 1965, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 46: 295. Holotype: MSNG 8773, by original designation. Type locality: "Agua Ize (400-700 M.), Ilha São Thomé, Gulf of Guinea".
English Names
Aqua Ize Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Southern half of São Thome I. and adjacent Rolas I., São Thome and Principe.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Sao Tome and Principe
Endemic to the political unit: Sao Tome and Principe
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Schistometopum thomense by O'Connell, Prates, Scheinberg, Mulder, and Bell, 2021, Mol. Ecol., 30: 2859–2871, noting a hybrid zone with Schistometopum ephele in the central part of the island; the synonymy had been made by Haft, 1992, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 43: 478, Nussbaum and Pfrender, 1998, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 187: 26, and Drewes and Stoelting, 2004, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 55: 573. Bell, Ceríaco, Scheinberg, and Drewes, 2022, in Ceríaco et al. (eds.), Biodiversity Gulf Guinea Islands: 485–490, summarized the literature and systematics of the species. Bell, Ceríaco, Scheinberg, and Drewes, 2022, in Ceríaco et al. (eds.), Biodiversity Gulf Guinea Islands: 485–490, summarized the literature and systematics of the species.
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