Amietia desaegeri (Laurent, 1972)
Rana desaegeri Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 91. Holotype: MRAC 74018B5626 according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 12. Type locality: "riv. Byangolo, secteur Munsenene, 1. 300 m", Dem. Rep. Congo.
Rana (Rana) desaegeri — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42.
Rana (Afrana) desaegeri — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.
Afrana desaegeri — Visser and Channing, 1997, J. Afr. Zool., 111: 192. by implication.
Amietia desaegeri — 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: 366.
English Names
Byangolo Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).
Distribution
Rainforest of eastern Dem. Rep. Congo.
Comment
Prior to the revision of 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, placed in the Section Strongylopus, subgenus Afrana of Rana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.
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