Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Polypedates rufescens Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 486. Holotype: BMNH. Type locality: "West Africa".

Chiromantis guineensis Buchholz and Peters In Peters, 1875, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875: 203. Syntypes: ZMB 8356 (1 adult and several larvae), according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50, and 1 adult and several larvae in the ZMG according to Herrmann, 1989, Veröff. Naturhist. Mus. Schleusingen, 4: 13-14. Type locality: "Cameruns (Victoria)". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 92.

Chiromantis rufescens — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 92.

Rhacophorus (Chiromantis) guineensis — Knauer, 1883, Naturgesch. Lurche: 112.

English Names

African Foam-nest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Western Foam-nest Tree Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 131; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 338).

Distribution

Rainforests of West Africa from Sierra Leone and Liberia to Uganda and south to extreme western Dem. Rep. Congo.

Comment

For synonymy and account see Schiøtz, 1967, Spolia Zool. Mus. Haun., 25: 21. See short accounts in De Witte, 1928, Rev. Zool. Afr., 15: 50-53, and Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 165-166. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 135, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea. Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 384, reported this species from Gabon. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 338-339, provided an account. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 61, provided records for Nigeria. Hillers and Rödel, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 1-10, provided a record for Liberia.

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