Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylambates ocellatus Mocquard, 1902, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8: 413. Holotype: MNHNP 1901.595, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 56. Type locality: "Gabon . . . . à environ 50 kilomètres au Sud-Ouest de Lambaréné".

Leptopelis ocellatus — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 240. Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 223.

Leptopelis acuticeps Ahl, 1929, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1929: 193. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered according to the original publication. Type locality: "Süd-Kamerun". Synonymy by Perret, 1958, Rev. Suisse Zool., 65: 268-269; and Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 430.

Leptopelis ocellatus ocellatus — Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 25.

Leptopelis ocellatus schiotzi Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 26. Holotype: MRAC 112709, by original designation. Type locality: "Omaniundu, Sankuru, Zaïre".

English Names

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

Distribution

Forest swamps from southern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rep. Congo, to western and central Dem. Rep. Congo, possibly into southwestern Central African Republic.

Comment

De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 131, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea. Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 384, reported this species from Gabon. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Penner and Rödel, 2007, in Butynski and McCullough (eds.), RAP Bull. Biol. Assessment, 46: 37-41, provided a record for north-central Dem. Rep. Congo. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 539-543.

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