Phrynobatrachus bequaerti (Barbour and Loveridge, 1929)
Arthroleptis bequaerti Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 11: 25. Holotype: MCZ 14751, by original designation. Type locality: "a swamp on Mt. Vissoke, Belgian Congo [=Dem. Rep. Congo], 8000-9000 feet altitude".
Pararthroleptis bequaerti — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 159.
Phrynobatrachus bequaerti — De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933-1935), 33: 74.
Phrynobatrachus (Phrynobatrachus) bequaerti — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 201.
English Names
Vissoke River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).
Distribution
Mountains of eastern Dem. Rep. Congo (region of Mount Ruwenzori south to west of Lake Kivu); western Rwanda and northwestern Burundi, 2400-3000 m elevation.
Comment
See brief account in Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 112-114. See comment under Phrynobatrachus graueri. See comments on morphology in Grandison and Howell, 1983, Amphibia-Reptilia, 4: 122. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature. 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: 471. Not addressed by Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900, so not assigned to species group.
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