Nyctibates Boulenger, 1904
Nyctibates Boulenger, 1904, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 13: 261. Type species: Nyctibates corrugatus Boulenger, 1904, by monotypy.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southeastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, and northern Equatorial Guinea, at low elevations.
Comment
In Astylosternini of Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 234. Placed in the synonymy of Astylosternus Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 376, but subsequently Amiet, 1971, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 6: 98, suggested that Nyctibates is valid, with tadpole morphology more similar to Leptodactylodon and Trichobatrachus than to Astylosternus. Later Amiet, 1973 "1972", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 12: 79-100, formalized the revalidation of Nyctibates, justifying it with larval morphology, adult morphology and vocalizations.
Contained taxa
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