Petropedetes Reichenow, 1874
Petropedetes Reichenow, 1874, Arch. Naturgesch., 40: 290. Type species: Petropedetes cameronensis Reichenow, 1874, by monotypy. Placed on the Official List of Generic Name by Opinion 1921, Anonymous, 1999, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 56: 96-100.
Petropedites — O'Shaughnessy, 1876, Zool. Rec., 11: 84. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Tympanoceros Bocage, 1895, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, Ser. 2, 3: 270. Type species: Tympanoceros newtoni Bocage, 1895, by monotypy. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 439.
Arthroleptides Nieden, 1911 "1910", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1910: 445. Type species: Arthroleptides martiensseni Nieden, 1911 "1910", by monotypy. Synonymy by Scott, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 533.
English Names
African Water Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).
Rocky River Frogs (Arthroleptides [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).
Distribution
Sierra Leone through Ivory Coast and Nigeria to Cameroon with an apparent gap at Togo; Bioko, (Equatorial Guinea); mountains of Tanzania and Kenya, possibly into adjacent Uganda.
Comment
Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 369-374; and Amiet, 1973, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 35: 462-474, discussed the Cameroon species. Perret, 1984, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 107: 169, provided an identification matrix for the species. Drewes and Vindum, 1994, J. Afr. Zool., 108: 55-70, referred tadpoles from southwestern Uganda to this genus, but with additional examination these were reidentified as Amietia ruwenzorica (RD). Channing, Moyer, and Howell, 2002, Alytes, 20: 13-27, discussed the three species of former Arthroleptides, their habitats, range, and provided an identification key to them. Menegon, Doggart, and Owen, 2008, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 3: 107-127, reported an undescribed species from the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania. Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010, Zootaxa, 2340: 1-49, reviewed the species of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria and provided an identification key.
Contained taxa
- Petropedetes cameronensis Reichenow, 1874
- Petropedetes dutoiti (Loveridge, 1935)
- Petropedetes euskircheni Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010
- Petropedetes johnstoni (Boulenger, 1888)
- Petropedetes juliawurstnerae Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010
- Petropedetes martiensseni (Nieden, 1911)
- Petropedetes natator Boulenger, 1905
- Petropedetes palmipes Boulenger, 1905
- Petropedetes parkeri Amiet, 1983
- Petropedetes perreti Amiet, 1973
- Petropedetes vulpiae Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010
- Petropedetes yakusini (Channing, Moyer, and Howell, 2002)
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