Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana mascareniensis var. aequiplicata Werner, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 192. Syntypes: ZMB and including NHMW 9784, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 27, and Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 28. Type locality: "Kamerun (Victoria [now Limbé] und Buca [= Buea]", Cameroon.

Rana aequiplicata — Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 437.

Rana (Ptychadena) aequiplicata — De Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 5. Parker, 1936, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 139; Guibé and Lamotte, 1954, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 26: 318; Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233; by implication

Ptychadena aequiplicata — Laurent, 1956, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 53: 232. Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942; Lamotte, 1967, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 29: 237; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Ptychadena (Ptychadena) aequiplicata — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.

English Names

Victoria Grassland Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105).

Distribution

Southern Guinea, eastern Liberia, and southern Ivory Coast in rainforest south and east to western Central African Republic and extreme western Dem. Rep. Congo, in rainforest.

Comment

See Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 343-344; Amiet, 1974, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 18: 110. Removed from the synonymy of Ptychadena longirostris, by Parker, 1936, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 139, where it had been placed by Ahl, 1924, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 11: 1. Loveridge, 1929, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 151: 102, and Andersson, 1937, Ark. Zool., 29(16): 1-28, had suggested that Rana aequiplicata was a race of Rana oxyrhynchus. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 134, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea. Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 385, reported this species from Gabon. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 23, provided records for Nigeria.

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