Afrixalus "quadrivittatus" Pickersgill, 2007
Hyperolius leptosomus Peters, 1877, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877: 619. Holotype: ZMB 9175 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 44. Type locality: "Chinchoxo (Westafrika)" [= Cabinda, Angola]. Synonymy with Afrixalus fulvovittatus by Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 78; Lötters, Gossmann, Obame, and Böhme, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 28. Assigned by implication to Afrixalus "quadrivittatus" by Pickersgill, 2007, Afr. J. Herpetol., 56: 23-37.
Megalixalus leptosomus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 129. Chabanaud, 1921, Bull. Com. Études Hist. Scient. Afr. Occid. Franç., 1921: 459 (based in part on Afrixalus fulvovittatus and Afrixalus vittiger according to Pickersgill, 2007, Afr. J. Herpetol., 56: 23-37).
Megalixalus leptosomus leptosomus — Werner, 1908 "1907", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 116: 1900.
Hyperolius brevipalmatus Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 279. Holotype: ZMB 24499 according to Perret, 1962, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 65: 246. Type locality: "Sangmelina Süd Kamerun". The description in Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 25, appeared a few weeks later according to unpublished notes by A. Loveridge (fide R. Laurent). Synonymy with Afrixalus fulvovittatus by Loveridge, 1936, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 79: 371; Perret, 1962, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 65: 246. Assigned by implication to Afrixalus "quadrivittatus" by Pickersgill, 2007, Afr. J. Herpetol., 56: 23-37.
Megalixalus (Afrixalus) leptosomus — Laurent, 1944, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 38: 113-114.
Afrixalus fulvovittatus leptosomus — Laurent, 1950, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933-1935), 64: 18. Laurent, 1951, Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 82: 28; Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 131.
Afrixalus fulvovittatus leptosomus — Laurent, 1951, Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 82: 28.
Hyperolius fulvovittatus leptosoma — Perret, 1960, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 61: 371-372. Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 441.
Afrixalus dorsalis leptosomus — Perret, 1976, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 99: 19-28.
Afrixalus fulvovittatus brevipalmatus — Perret, 1976, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 99: 19-28.
Afrixalus "quadrivittatus" Pickersgill, 2007, Afr. J. Herpetol., 56: 23-37. Holotype: NONE. Type locality: NONE. (See comment). Working name for a complex of populations not otherwise sorted.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Savanna-forest ecotone regions of tropical West Africa from Senegal, Gambia, and Mali, western Dem. Rep. Congo; reported in Equatorial Guinea; reported in western and southeastern areas of Dem. Rep. Congo to Uganda, western Kenya, and Tanzania (see comment).
Comment
See comment under Afrixalus quadrivittatus. Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 111, implied that the controversy may have to do with confusion with the very similar Afrixalus fulvovittatus and Afrixalus vittiger.
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