Xenopus kobeli Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pipidae > Subfamily: Dactylethrinae > Genus: Xenopus > Species: Xenopus kobeli

Xenopus (Xenopus) kobeli Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 35–36. Holotype: MCZ A-148037, by original designation. Type locality: "Republic of Cameroon, Centre Region, Meganme village, N 4.6116°, E 12.2254°, 637 m". Zoobank publication registration: F9F51F48-7477-4AEB-90B8-4388142D1577

English Names

Kobel's Clawed Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Standing water on the southern Bamiléké Plateau of western Cameroon, 1100 and 1500 m elevation, into central or southeastern Cameroon at lower elevations (ca. 380 m); possibly to extend into adjacent northern Rep. Congo.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon

Endemic: Cameroon

Comment

An 12-alloploid member of the Xenopus amieti group according to the original publication. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 46–47, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.  

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