Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Arthroleptis dispar Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 649. Holotype: ZMB 6133, not located, according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 48. Type locality: "Ilha do Principe".

Hyperolius (Arthroleptis) dispar — Knauer, 1883, Naturgesch. Lurche: 111.

Arthroleptis feae Boulenger, 1906 "1905", Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 2: 161. Syntypes: (25 specimens) including BMNH 1947.2.6.88-91 (formerly 1906.3.30.123-126), according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 445. Type locality: "Prince's Island [= Principe], at atltitudes of 100 to 300 m.", Gulf of Guinea. Synonymy by Schätti and Loumont, 1992, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 47: 27. Identified as a possible synonym by Loumont, 1992, Alytes, 10: 42.

Pseudarthroleptis feae — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 158.

Phrynobatrachus feae — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 207.

Phrynobatrachus dispar — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 207.

English Names

Peters' River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

Distribution

Principe I., Principe and São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea.

Comment

See Uyeda, Drewes, and Zimkus, 2007, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 58: 367-371, for account and recognition fo the São Tomé I. population as Phrynobatrachus leveleve. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature. In species group B of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900.

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