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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Sclerophrys superciliaris
(Boulenger, 1888) Photo
figures 11A–B
TYPE
LOCALITY
.— “
Rio del Rey
,
Cameroons
”
.
DISTRIBUTION
.— The nominal subspecies (see comments) is known from
Nigeria
,
Cameroon
,
Gabon
,
Equatorial Guinea
and, tentatively,
Central African Republic
. In
Equatorial Guinea
,
S. superciliaris superciliaris
has been recorded from
Río Muni
(
Boulenger 1900
;
De la Riva 1994
) (
Map 12C
).
COMMENTS
.—
Barej et al. (2011)
revealed the existence of three distinct taxa within the formerly known
S. superciliaris
sensu lato
. One of them is represented by
S. superciliaris superciliaris
, which is distributed from eastern
Nigeria
,
Cameroon
,
Gabon
and
Equatorial Guinea
; a second taxon,
S. superciliaris chevalieri
, is distributed from
Sierra Leone
,
Guinea
,
Liberia
,
Ivory Coast
and
Ghana
; the third taxon is located over the eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo
and was described as a distinct species,
Amietophrynus channingi
Barej, Schmitz, Menegon, Hillers, Hinkel, Böhme, and Rödel, 2011
(currently
S. channingi
).
SPECIMENS
EXAMINED
.— No specimens of this species were found in the collections examined by us in this study.