Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Alexteroon Perret, 1988, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 111: 39. Type species: Hyperolius obstetricans Ahl, 1931, by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Southern and southwestern Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea.

Comment

See Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 84-85, for account. Amiet, 2000, Alytes, 17: 125-164, reviewed and redefined the genus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, placed Alexteroon well within Hyperolius, militating against the recognition of this taxon.

Contained taxa

• Alexteroon hypsiphonus Amiet, 2000
• Alexteroon jynx Amiet, 2000
• Alexteroon obstetricans (Ahl, 1931)

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