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Arthroleptis loveridgei De Witte, 1933

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Arthroleptinae > Genus: Arthroleptis

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Arthroleptis loveridgei De Witte, 1933, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 24: 99. Syntypes: MRAC 2624-25 (2 specimens), according to Laurent in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 19. Type locality: "Arebi (Uelé)", Ituri, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Arthroleptis (Arthroleptis) loveridgei — Laurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 85.

Schoutedenella loveridgei — Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 39. Laurent in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 19.

Arthroleptis loveridgei — Laurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274-275. by implication; 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: 366.

English Names

Loveridge's Screeching Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Arebi, Uelé, Ituri, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo).

Comment

Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature.

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