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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Conraua goliath
(
Boulenger, 1906
) Photo
figure 13B
TYPE
LOCALITY
.— “Efulen”,
South
Cameroon
.
DISTRIBUTION
.—
Conraua goliath
is distributed over south-western
Cameroon
(Nkongsamba region) and mainland
Equatorial Guinea
. In
Equatorial Guinea
, it has been recorded in several localities in
Río Muni
(
Sabater Pi 1985
;
De la Riva 1994
) (
Map 14A
).
COMMENTS
.— This is the largest living frog in the world. The
holotype
measured
25 cm
of snout-vent length (
Boulenger 1906b
), and the largest specimen recorded weighted
3.3 kg
(
Sabater Pi 1985
). Adults live in the fast-flowing rivers in lowland rainforest, below
1000 m
a.s.l., where they rest over the rocks, emerging from rapids during the day, while they move along the river margins during the night (
Sabater Pi 1985
). Some aspects of their reproductive behaviour, such as nest construction for spawing, have been recently described (
Schäfer et al. 2019
).
SPECIMENS
EXAMINED
.—
Twenty specimens
. [
Río Muni
] (
MNCN 4050
)
.
Niefang, Sense (
1º33´N
,
09º48´W
)
June
/
July 1964
(
EBD 2699–2701
,
EBD 2754–2756
,
EBD 20842–20854
);
San Joaquín de Ndyiacom
(
EBD 31507
)
.