Leptodactylodon Andersson, 1903
Leptodactylodon Andersson, 1903, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 53: 141. Type species: Leptodactylodon ovatus Andersson, 1903, by monotypy.
Bulua Boulenger, 1904, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 13: 262. Type species: Bulua ventrimarmorata Boulenger, 1904, by monotypy. Synonymy by Andersson, 1905, Ark. Zool., 2(20): 22, and Roux, 1905, Zool. Anz., 28: 777-785.
English Names
Egg Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).
Distribution
Eastern Nigeria and western and southwestern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.
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: 336. Revised by Amiet, 1981 "1980", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 27: 69-224, who supplied information on life history and relationships. Removed from Phrynopsinae of Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 518, to Astylosterninae by Laurent, 1946, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 39: 337. Ohler, 1999, Alytes, 17: 73-80, provided a key to the species and recognized four species groups, the Leptodactylodon mertensi group (Leptodactylodon mertensi, Leptodactylodon erythrogaster, Leptodactylodon perreti, Leptodactylodon axillaris), Leptodactylodon bicolor group (Leptodactylodon bicolor), Leptodactylodon ornatus group (Leptodactylodon ornatus), and Leptodactylodon ovatus group (Leptodactylodon ovatus, Leptodactylodon boulengeri, Leptodactylodon ventrimarmoratus, Leptodactylodon albiventris, Leptodactylodon blanci, Leptodactylodon polycanthus).
Contained taxa
- Leptodactylodon albiventris (Boulenger, 1905)
- Leptodactylodon axillaris Amiet, 1971
- Leptodactylodon bicolor Amiet, 1971
- Leptodactylodon blanci Ohler, 1999
- Leptodactylodon boulengeri Nieden, 1910
- Leptodactylodon bueanus Amiet, 1981
- Leptodactylodon erythrogaster Amiet, 1971
- Leptodactylodon mertensi Perret, 1959
- Leptodactylodon ornatus Amiet, 1971
- Leptodactylodon ovatus Andersson, 1903
- Leptodactylodon perreti Amiet, 1971
- Leptodactylodon polyacanthus Amiet, 1971
- Leptodactylodon stevarti Rödel and Pauwels, 2003
- Leptodactylodon ventrimarmoratus (Boulenger, 1904)
- Leptodactylodon wildi Amiet and Dowsett-Lemaire, 2000
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