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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Werneria
cf.
mertensiana
Amiet, 1976 Photo
figures 12A–B
TYPE
LOCALITY
.— “
Mt. Nlonako
, env. de N’Kongsamba,
1.000 m
”,
Cameroon
.
DISTRIBUTION
.— In
Equatorial Guinea
it is only known from Monte Alén National Park,
Río Muni
(
De la Riva 1994
) (
Map 13B
).
COMMENTS
.— This genus was originally reported in
Equatorial Guinea
by
De la Riva (1994)
at Monte Alén National Park based on a single specimen, which was regarded as
W. mertensiana
Amiet, 1976
. However,
Rödel et al. (2004)
suggested that the taxonomic status of the
Werneria
species
from
Equatorial Guinea
needs to be revised, as no morphological characters concordant with those of other congeneric species, including
W. mertensiana
from
Cameroon
, were detected.
Thus, the population from
Río Muni
could represent an undescribed species (
Rödel et al. 2004
), but more data are necessary to test this hypothesis.
SPECIMENS
EXAMINED
.— No specimens of
Werneria
from
Equatorial Guinea
were found in the collections examined by us in this study.