Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Arthroleptis rouxi Nieden, 1912 "1913", Wissenschaft. Ergebn. Deutschen Zentral Afr. Exped., 4: 178. Holotype: ZMB 23102, according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 449. Type locality: "NW-Budduwald", Uganda.

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

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

English Names

Roux's River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).

Roux's Puddle Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 290).

Distribution

Western shore of Lake Victoria in Uganda; Mt. Kenya, Kenya.

Comment

Although Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 115-116, provisionally considered this species a junior synonym of Phrynobatrachus calcaratus; Perret, 1988, Arch. Sci., Genève, 41: 277, did not consider them conspecific (by implication), and by J.-L. Perret (personal communication) who noted that this nominal species could be conspecific with Phrynobatrachus cornutus. Loveridge, 1925, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1925: 783, had considered Arthroleptis rouxi a junior synonym of Arthroleptis ogoensis. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 290-291, provided an account. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature, and gave Dem. Rep. Congo as part of the range, but did not provide any definite localities. Not addressed by Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900, so not assigned to species group, but presumably in their group B.

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