Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Chiromantis kelleri Boettger, 1893, Zool. Anz., 16: 131. Syntypes: SMF (2 specimens) by original designation; SMF 7001 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 46. Type locality: "Im Inneren der Somalisteppen häufig, besonders am Steppensee bei Laku und im Lande der Abdallah nördlich vom Webithal", Ethiopia. Synonymy by Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366.

Hylambates enantiodactylus Calabresi, 1916, Monit. Zool. Ital., 27: 36. Types: MZUF. Type locality: "Bardera", Somalia. "Will doubtlessly be demonstrated to be a Chiromantis. . . " according to Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 322. Synonymy with Chiromantis petersii kelleri by Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366. Synonymy by Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 172.

Chiromantis macrops Ahl, 1929, Zool. Anz., 80: 29. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered in the original publication; ZMB 26907 according to Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 118. Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 348, considers ZMB 26907, 57999-58000 as syntypes. Type locality: "Ganda Ali, Annia Galla und Arussi Galla", Tanzania. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 391; Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366; Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 120.

Leptopelis enantiodactylus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 220.

Chiromantis petersii kelleri — Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366.

Chiromantis kelleri — Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 111-128.

English Names

Keller's Foam-nest Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 335).

Distribution

Savannas of lowland eastern and southern and eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia through Kenya to southern Tanzania.

Comment

See comment under Chiromantis petersii. Removed from the synonymy of Chiromantis petersii by Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 111-128, where it had been placed by Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366. Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 348-349, commented on distribution. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 335-336, provided an account. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 211.

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