Leptopelis lebeaui (De Witte, 1933)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Leptopelinae > Genus: Leptopelis > Species: Leptopelis lebeaui

Hylambates lebeaui De Witte, 1933, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 24: 102. Holotype: MRAC 5146, according to Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 169. Type locality: "Nyonga", Katanga Province, Dem. Rep. Congo.

Leptopelis flavomaculatus lebeauiLaurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 59.

Leptopelis lebeauiPoynton, 1985, S. Afr. J. Sci., 81: 467; Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 169.

English Names

Lebeau's Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 169).

Nyonga Forest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Nyonga, Upemba National Park, Katanga Province, Dem. Rep. Congo).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Endemic: Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Comment

Placed in the synonymy of Leptopelis flavomaculatus by Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 59, but provisionally resurrected by Poynton, 1985, S. Afr. J. Sci., 81: 467, and Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 168-169. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 396, regarded this nominal taxon as too insufficiently known to treat adequately in their fieldguide, a likely synonym of Leptopelis flavomaculatus

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