Cardioglossa Boulenger, 1900
Cardioglossa Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 445. Type species: Cardioglossa gracilis Boulenger, 1900, by monotypy.
English Names
Long-fingered Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).
Distribution
Forested areas of western and central Africa.
Comment
In Arthroleptini 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: 336. Amiet, 1982, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 28: 117-131, presented a dendrogram of the Cameroonian species in this genus. Amiet, 1972, Biol. Gabonica, 8: 201-234, described five new species. See comment under Arthroleptis. Considered by Noble, 1922, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 46: 1-87, and Laurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 91, to be derived from a group containing Arthroleptis wahlbergi and Arthroleptis variabilis, although this is not consistent with recent findings. Amiet, 1972, Science et Nature, 14: 11-24, provided a pictorial summary of the species of Cameroon. Blackburn, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 154: 611-630, discussed morphological diversity in the genus, noted that inclusion of Cardioglossa aureoli probably renders Cardioglossa paraphyletic, recognized five similarity groupings, and provided a key to the species. Blackburn, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 49: 806-826, subsequently transferred Cardioglossa aureoli into Arthroleptis.
Contained taxa
- Cardioglossa alsco Herrmann, Herrmann, Schmitz, and Böhme, 2004
- Cardioglossa cyaneospila Laurent, 1950
- Cardioglossa elegans Boulenger, 1906
- Cardioglossa escalerae Boulenger, 1903
- Cardioglossa gracilis Boulenger, 1900
- Cardioglossa gratiosa Amiet, 1972
- Cardioglossa leucomystax (Boulenger, 1903)
- Cardioglossa manengouba Blackburn, 2008
- Cardioglossa melanogaster Amiet, 1972
- Cardioglossa nigromaculata Nieden, 1908
- Cardioglossa occidentalis Blackburn, Kosuch, Schmitz, Burger, Wagner, Gonwouo, Hillers, and Rödel, 2008
- Cardioglossa oreas Amiet, 1972
- Cardioglossa pulchra Schiøtz, 1963
- Cardioglossa schioetzi Amiet, 1982
- Cardioglossa trifasciata Amiet, 1972
- Cardioglossa venusta Amiet, 1972
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