Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Arthroleptis spinalis Boulenger, 1919, Rev. Zool. Afr., 7: 187. Holotype: MRAC, according to Laurent in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 20. Type locality: "la plaine Saint-Louis, au [Lake] Tanganyika", eastern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Arthroleptis boulengeri De Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 12. Holotype: MRAC, by original designation. Type locality: "la plain Saint-Louis, au bord du lac Tanganyika", Dem. Rep. Congo. Secondary homonym of Phrynobatrachus boulengeri De Witte, 1918. Synonymy by Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 38.

Arthroleptis (Arthroleptulus) spinalis — Laurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 87.

Schoutedenella spinalis — Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 38. Laurent in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 19.

Arthroleptis spinalis — 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: 336.

English Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (St. Louis Plain on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, eastern Dem. Rep. Congo).

Comment

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

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