Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylambates rufus var. modesta Werner, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 197. Syntypes: ZMB 114112 (2 specimens) (Cameroon), 20046 (2 specimens) (South Cameroon), 28708 (Buéa, Cameroon), and MCZ 17621 (on exchange from ZMB, according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 125); ZMB 28708 designated lectotype by Perret, 1962, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 65: 237. Type locality: "Kamerun"; restricted to "Buéa, Cameroun" by lectotype designation.

Hylambates rufus var. ventrimaculata Werner, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 198. Types: ZMB, by original designation. Type locality: "Kamerun". Synonymy by Ahl, 1929, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1929: 215.

Leptopelis modestus — Ahl, 1929, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1929: 214.

Leptopelis modestus modestus — Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 36.

English Names

Modest Forest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).

Plain Tree Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 205).

Distribution

In two widely separate regions, medium and high-altitude forests in southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon, and at medium altitudes in eastern Dem. Rep. Congo to western Kenya; expected to occur in Uganda; Bioko I.

Comment

See brief account in Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 46-47. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 269, discussed unnamed species masquerading under this name: one found at high altitudes in Cameroon and on the Obudu Plateau in Nigeria, the other likely represented by the East African population. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 205-206, provided an account. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 513-521.

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