Amietophrynus latifrons (Boulenger, 1900)
Bufo latifrons Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 435. Syntypes: BMNH 1900.2.17.114-116, according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 51. Type locality: "Benito River", elsewhere in the original publication suggested to be "Benito River, north of the Gaboon River between 20 and 30 miles inland from the coast, Gaboon", Equatorial Guinea.
Bufo latifrons latifrons — Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 31.
Bufo latifrons mayombensis Hulselmans, 1977, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 91: 521. Holotype: MRAC 101857, by original designation. Type locality: "Riv. Lubonga", Dem. Rep. Congo.
Amietophrynus latifrons — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 363.
English Names
High Tropical Forest Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42).
Distribution
Coastal tropical forests of Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rep. Congo, and Dem. Rep. Congo in high tropical forest; presumably in Cabina Enclave, Angola.
Comment
In the Bufo latifrons group of XXX. See comment under Bufo cristiglans and Bufo togoensis. Removed from the synonymy of Bufo regularis by Parker, 1936, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 135-163, where it had been placed by Mocquard, 1902, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8: 417. Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 380, 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.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
