Xenopus andrei Loumont, 1983
Xenopus andrei Loumont, 1983, Rev. Suisse Zool., 90: 170. Holotype: MHNG 2088.32, by original designation. Type locality: "Longyi (Nord de Kribi)", southern Cameroon.
Xenopus (Xenopus) andrei — Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 13.
English Names
Andre's Clawed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).
Distribution
Coastal Cameroon, northern Gabon and western Central African Republic; possibly into Equatorial Guinea and Rep. Congo.
Comment
One of a group of cryptic species resembling Xenopus fraseri but distinguished from it by chromosome number (2n = 72) and mating call. See Kobel, Loumont, and Tinsley, 1996, in Tinsley and Kobel (eds.), Biol. Xenopus: 9-33, for account.
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