Xenopus eysoole 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 eysoole

Xenopus (Xenopus) eysoole Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 32. Holotype: MCZ A-138016, by original designation. Type locality: "Republic of Cameroon, North-West Region, Elak Oku village, southern face of Mt. Oku, N 6.2427º, E 10.5011º, 1870 m". Zoobank publication registration: F9F51F48-7477-4AEB-90B8-4388142D1577

English Names

 Bamiléké Clawed Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

High elevations (ca. 1400–2000 m) in the northern part of the Bamiléké Plateau in Cameroon, in the Bamenda-Banso Highlands. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon

Endemic: Cameroon

Comment

A 12-ploid species in the Xenopus (Xenopus) amieti group according to the original publication. 

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