Leptodactylodon ornatus Amiet, 1971

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Astylosterninae > Genus: Leptodactylodon > Species: Leptodactylodon ornatus

Leptodactylodon ornatus Amiet, 1971 "1970", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 5: 59. Holotype: MHNG 2031.10 according to according to Amiet, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 23, and Schätti, Perret, and Mariaux, 2002, Cat. Comm. Types Amph. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve, Vers. 4.0 (Jan. 2002): 13. Type locality: "Mt Nlonako, près [ESE] de Nkongsamba, récolté entre 800 et 1.000 m d'altitude", Cameroon.

Leptodactylodon ornatus permaculatus Amiet, 1971, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 7–8: 142. Holotype: MHNG 2031.3 (formerly JLA 71.462) according to Schätti, Perret, and Mariaux, 2002, Cat. Comm. Types Amph. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve, Vers. 4.0 (Jan. 2002): 13. Type locality: "Fotabong, 1.000-1.100 m", Cameroon.

Leptodactylus ornatus ornatusAmiet, 1971, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 7–8: 142.

English Names

Ornate Egg Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).

Distribution

Hilly country near the southern and western slopes of the Bamileke Plateau and Mont Manengouba, Cameroon.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon

Endemic: Cameroon

Comment

See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 153. Mapouyat, Hirschfeld, Rödel, Liedtke, Loader, Gonwouo, Dahmen, Doherty-Bone, and Barej, 2014, Zootaxa, 3765: 29–53, reported on larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 250–251, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.  

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