Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Arthroleptis poecilonotus Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 446. Holotype: ZMB 3345, according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 40. Type locality: "Holländischen Besitzungen (Boutry) an der Küste von Guinea", Ghana.

Arthroleptis macrodactylus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 117. Holotype: BMNH (figured on pl. 11, fig. 5 in the original publication), by original designation. BMNH 1875.10.15.3, according to D. Blackburn (personal. comm.). Type locality: "Gaboon" (= Gabon). Synonymy by Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 317-323; Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 394.

Arthroleptis inguinalis Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 442. Syntypes: BMNH "numerous specimens" by original designation; including BM 1947.2.30.55 and 1947.2.30.56, according to D. Blackburn (personal commun. 15 Oct 2010). Type locality: "Benito River", elsewhere in the original publication noted as "Benito River, north of the Gaboon River between 20 and 30 miles inland from the coast, Gaboon", Equatorial Guinea. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 317-323; Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 394.

Abroscaphus peocilonotus — Laurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274-275. by implication.

Arthroleptis peocilonotus — Laurent and Fabrezi, 1986 "1985", Alytes, 4: 92.

English Names

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

Mottled Squeaker (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 58).

Distribution

West African forest belt from Guinea-Bissau to Gabon, north-central Central African Republic, Rep. Congo, northern Dem. Rep. Congo and extreme western Uganda, possibly as far as South Sudan; Bioko.

Comment

Possibly conspecific with Arthroleptis bivittatus according to Perret, 1991, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 114: 72-76. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 181-186, provided an account and noted the likelihood of this taxon being composed of more than one species. Blackburn, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 49: 806-826, noted phylogenetic structure within nominal Arthroleptis poecilonotus. Gabon record (tentative identification) provided by Lötters, Gossmann, Obame, and Böhme, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 21. Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 381, also reported this species from Gabon. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 58-59, provided a brief account for East Africa and suggested that more than one species might be masquerading under this name, the East African populations actually being conspecific with Arthroleptis tuberosus. See comment under Arthroleptis zimmeri, a likely synonym. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 31, provided records for Nigeria (presumably including what is now Arthroleptis palava). Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 6-16, provided records for Gambia, but suggested that their taxonomic status was questionable. Segniagbeto, Bowessidjaou, Dubois, and Ohler, 2007, Alytes, 24: 76, commented on the species in Togo. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature. Jacobsen, 2009, Afr. Herp News, 47: 2-20, reported this species from east-north-central Central African Republic.

External Links

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.

• For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
• For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
• For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
• For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
• For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
• for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML