Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylarana amnicola Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 855. Holotype: MHNG 1551.43, by original designation. Type locality: "Ilanga, Eséka, Cameroun méridional".

Rana amnicola —Perret In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 480.

Rana (Hylarana) amnicola — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.

Rana (Amnirana) amnicola — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324.

Amnirana amnicola — Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 266. by implication; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hydrophylax amnicola — 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: 368.

Hylarana amnicola — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. by implication.

English Names

Ilanga Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Distribution

Central and western Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and north-central Dem. Rep. Congo; presumably in intervening Rep. Congo and Central African Republic.

Comment

In the Rana (Amnirana) albolabris group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 135, 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 (as Amnirana amnicola) on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Penner and Rödel, 2007, in Butynski and McCullough (eds.), RAP Bull. Biol. Assessment, 46: 37-41, provided a record for north-central Dem. Rep. Congo.

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