Synopsis of the Amphibians of Equatorial Guinea based upon the Authors’ Field Work and Spanish Natural History Collections
Author
Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C / José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2. 28006, Madrid, Spain;
Author
Calvo-Revuelta, Marta
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C / José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2. 28006, Madrid, Spain;
Author
Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago
Laboratorio de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Av / Ipiranga, 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619 - 900, Porto Alegre, Brazil; * Corresponding author: IDlR (iriva @ mncn. csic. es)
Author
De, Ignacio
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C / José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2. 28006, Madrid, Spain;
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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
2020
2020-03-31
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Xenopus calcaratus
Peters, 1875
TYPE
LOCALITY
.— “Cameruns (Victoria)”,
Limbe
,
Southwest Province
,
Republic of Cameroon
.
DISTRIBUTION
.—
Xenopus calcaratus
is distributed in the lowlands of Bioko and in the coastal region of Limbe,
Cameroon
. In
Equatorial Guinea
, this species is only present on Bioko, where it inhabits the low elevations at Punta Europa (
Boulenger 1906a
), Basupú and Arena Blanca (
Evans et al. 2015
) (
Map 24A
).
COMMENTS
.— This species belongs to the subgenus
Silurana
. The record of
X. calcaratus
provided by
Boulenger (1900)
from “Benito River”,
Río Muni
, is herein allocated in the taxon
X.
(
Silurana
)
mellotropicalis
(see the respective comments in its species account) and, in a similar way, the record of
Boulenger (1903)
of
X. calcaratus
of “Cap Saint-Jean” (=Cabo San Juan),
Río Muni
, is herein considered as
X. parafraseri
, based on the description of the coloration pattern of the examined specimens (
Boulenger 1903
) and in the extended revision of the genus by
Evans et al. (2015)
.
SPECIMENS
EXAMINED
.— No specimens of the subgenus
Silurana
from
Equatorial Guinea
were found in the collections examined by us in this study.