Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana ruwenzorica Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 93. Holotype: MRAC 74-18B5820 according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 13. Type locality: "Kikyo, secteur Munsenene, forêt de montagne, 2. 080 m", Dem. Rep. Congo.

Rana (Rana) ruwenzorica — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42.

Rana (Afrana) ruwenzorica — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.

Afrana ruwenzorica — Visser and Channing, 1997, J. Afr. Zool., 111: 191-198.

Amietia ruwenzorica — 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: 367.

English Names

Ruwenzori Range Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Ruwenzori River Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 252).

Distribution

Ruwenzori Range (Dem. Rep. Congo and Uganda); probably other nearby mountains in Central Africa.

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. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 252-253, provided an account (as Afrana ruwenzorica).

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