Leptopelis notatus (Peters, 1875)
Hylambates notatus Peters, 1875, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875: 205. Holotype: ZMB 8471 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 43, who noted that the type is not lost as reported by Perret, 1962, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 65: 235-246. Type locality: "Cameruns" = Cameroon.
Hylambates rufus var. notata — Werner, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 198.
Hylambates cubito-albus Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 323. Syntypes: BMNH, by original designation. Type locality: "Zima", Kribi, Cameroon, and "Unyoro, east of Lake Albert". Synonymy by Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 236; Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 220; Perret, 1958, Rev. Suisse Zool., 65: 259.
Hylambates tessmanni Nieden, 1909, Arch. Naturgesch., 75: 365. Syntypes: ZMB, according to XXX. Type locality: "Makomo, Spanisch Guinea". Synonymy by Perret, 1958, Rev. Suisse Zool., 65: 259; Perret, 1962, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 65: 236.
Leptopelis notatus — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 332. Perret, 1958, Rev. Suisse Zool., 65: 259.
Leptopelis tessmanni — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 234, 245, 332.
Leptopelis (Elaphromantis) notatus — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 35: 98.
Leptopelis (Leptopelis) tessmanni — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 35: 94.
Leptopelis notatus tessmanni — Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 392.
Habrahyla eiselti Goin, 1961, Copeia, 1961: 62. Holotype: NHMW 16454, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil", in error. Synonymy by Mertens, 1963, Senckenb. Biol., 44: 175-176.
English Names
Common Forest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).
Distribution
Forests of extreme southeastern Nigeria through Cameroon to central Dem. Rep. Congo and northern Angola.
Comment
Discussed and revalidated by Perret, 1958, Rev. Suisse Zool., 65: 259, with synonymy of Hylambates cubitoalbus Boulenger, 1906, as well as Leptopelis tessmanni Nieden, 1909; the latter name having been much used before 1958. Pauwels, Rödel, and Toham, 2003, Hamadryad, 27: 271-273, reported the species in Gabon. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Jackson and Blackburn, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 149-164, provided a record for Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Rep. Congo. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 529-538.
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