Leptopelis parkeri Barbour and Loveridge, 1928
Leptopelis parkeri Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 236. Holotype: MCZ 13597, by original designation. Type locality: "Vituru, Uluguru Mountains, Tanganyika Territory [=Tanzania]".
Leptopelis martiensseni Ahl, 1929, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1929: 219. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Deutsch-Ost-Afrika (Tanga? oder Amani?)". Synonymy by Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 45.
Leptopelis (Heteropelis) parkeri — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 35: 99.
Leptopelis parkeri — Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 237.
English Names
Parker's Forest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).
Parker's Tree Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 208).
Distribution
Rainforests of the East Arc chain in eastern Tanzania, including the East and West Usambara, Udzungwa, Nguru, Uluguru, and South Pare mountains, 200-2000 m elevation.
Comment
Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 45, noted that specimens reported by Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 236, from Tanzania as Leptopelis rufus are of this species. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 208-209, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 489-491, provided accounts. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 290. Menegon, Doggart, and Owen, 2008, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 3: 107-127, provided a record (Leptopelis cf. parkeri) for the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania. See comments by See comments on identifications and range by Loader, Poynton, Lawson, Blackburn, and Menegon, 2011, Fieldiana, Life Earth Sci., 4: 95.
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