Cardioglossa elegans Boulenger, 1906

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Arthroleptinae > Genus: Cardioglossa > Species: Cardioglossa elegans

Cardioglossa elegans Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 321. Syntypes: BMNH (4 specimens) 1947.2.30.34–37 (formerly 1903.7.28.21–23), according to Amiet, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 16. Type locality: "Efulen", Cameroon.

Astylosternus elegans — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 222, by implication. See comment under Cardioglossa

English Names

Elegant Long-fingered Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).

Distribution

Western Cameroon through Equatorial Guinea to central Gabon in hilly, forested areas below 1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

Comment

Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Pauwels and Rödel, 2007, Herpetozoa, Wien, 19: 135-148, did not note the species as occurring in Gabon. Dewynter, Frétey, Jongsma, Bamba-Kaya, and Pauwels, 2018, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 18: 22, provided a brief account and photographs from the Monts Birougou area of Gabon. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 9, noted that the first record for Gabon was in 2008, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 45). Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 242–243, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See brief account, range map, and photographs for Equatorial Guinea in Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 137–230.  

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