Phrynobatrachus calcaratus (Peters, 1863)
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11105986 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11106238 |
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Phrynobatrachus calcaratus (Peters, 1863) |
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Phrynobatrachus calcaratus (Peters, 1863) View in CoL
TYPE LOCALITY.— “Boutry”, Ghana .
DISTRIBUTION.— This species ranges from Senegal and Guinea to Cameroon, and eastward to Central African Republic. In Equatorial Guinea, this species was recorded on Bioko at Punta Frailes (= Punta Europa) by Boulenger (1906a) ( Map 22B View MAPS ).
COMMENTS.— There are no additional records of this species from Bioko since Boulengerś (1906a) citation. This taxon represents a species complex ( Zimkus et al. 2010).
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— No specimens were found in the collections examined by us in this study.
BOULENGER, G. A. 1906 a. Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 3 (2): 157 - 172.
ZIMKUS, B. M., M. - O. RODEL, AND A. HILLERS. 2010. Complex patterns of continental speciation: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of sub-Saharan puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 883 - 900.
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