Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylarana acutirostris longipes Perret, 1960, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 83: 97. Holotype: MHNG 986.24, by original designation. Type locality: "l'Ouest camerounais (Bamiléké) . .. . Bangwa". Secondary homonym in Rana of Hylorana longipes Fischer, 1885, Rana fusca var. longipes Müller, 1885, and Rana longipes Hallowell, 1859.

Hylarana parkeriana longipes — Perret, 1961, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 84: 138. Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 350.

Hylarana longipes — Joger, 1982, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 33: 318. Schätti, Perret, and Mariaux, 2002, Cat. Comm. Types Amph. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve, Vers. 4.0 (Jan. 2002): 8.

Rana longipes —Perret In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 501.

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

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

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

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

English Names

Bamileke Plateau Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Distribution

Western and central Cameroon (Bamiléké and Adamaoua Plateaus), generally above 1000 m elevation.

Comment

In the Rana (Amnirana) albolabris group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Reviewed by Perret, 1977, Rev. Suisse Zool., 84: 850-853. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Amnirana longipes) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 475.

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