Amietophrynus superciliaris (Boulenger, 1888)
Bufo superciliaris Boulenger, 1888 "1887", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887: 565. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.21.41-49 (formerly 87.12.21.10-18), according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 61. Type locality: "Rio del Rey, Cameroons", Africa.
Bufo laevissimus Werner, 1897, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. München, 27: 212. Syntypes: Not designated; ZSM 148/1989/1-2 (2 juveniles) and ZSM 1113.0 (lost) by museum records according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 161. Type locality: "Kamerun". Synonymy with Bufo superciliaris by Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 436.
Bufo superciliosus — Werner, 1897, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. München, 27: 214. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Bufo Chevalieri Mocquard, 1908, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 14: 262. Holotype: MNHNP 1908.33, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 12. Type locality: "Côte-d'Ivoire". Synonymy; without discussion, by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 160.
Amietophrynus superciliaris — 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.
Amietophrynus superciliaris superciliaris — Barej, Schmitz, Menegon, Hillers, Hinkel, Böhme, and Rödel, 2011, Zootaxa, 2772: 9.
Amietophrynus superciliaris chevalieri — Barej, Schmitz, Menegon, Hillers, Hinkel, Böhme, and Rödel, 2011, Zootaxa, 2772: 9.
English Names
Cameroon Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 97; USFWS; CITES).
Distribution
In two blocks of West African blocks of forest: 1) southeastern Guinea, eastern Sierra Leone, Liberia, and southern Ivory Coast to southwestern Ghana; 2) southeastern Nigeria south through western Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea to northern Gabon. An isolated record in southwestern Central African Republic may refer to this species or to Amietophrynus channingi.
Comment
See account in Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 312-313 (in the sense of including what is now Amietophrynus channingi). In the Bufo superciliaris group of Martin, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 62, and Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 160. Gabon records by Lötters, Gossmann, Obame, and Böhme, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 22, and Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 380, reported this species from Gabon. See brief comments by Rödel, Bangoura, and Böhme, 2004, Herpetozoa, 17: 108, regarding range and natural history. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 22, provided records for Nigeria. Hillers and Rödel, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 1-10, reported the species for Liberia. Barej, Schmitz, Menegon, Hillers, Hinkel, Böhme, and Rödel, 2011, Zootaxa, 2772: 1-32, provided the most recent revision, recognizing the eastern Dem. Rep. Congo population as Amietophrynus channingi, and the populations in the eastern and western Guinean forest blocks as, respectively, Amietophrynus superciliaris chevalieri and Amietophrynus superciliaris superciliaris. Amietophrynus superciliaris superciliaris appears to share with Amietophrynus the apparent synapomorphy of a distinctive eyelid process, suggesting that nominal Amietophrynus superciliaris is paraphyletic with respect to Amietophrynus channingi. Should this be the case one expects that these allopatric and diagnosable subspecies should be regarded as species, Amietophrynus chevalieri and Amietophrynus superciliaris (DRF).
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