Phrynobatrachus auritus Boulenger 1900
- 1. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C / José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2. 28006, Madrid, Spain;
- 2. Laboratorio de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Av / Ipiranga, 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619 - 900, Porto Alegre, Brazil; * Corresponding author: IDlR (iriva @ mncn. csic. es)
Description
Phrynobatrachus auritus Boulenger, 1900 Photo figures 21D–G
TYPE LOCALITY.— “ Benito River ”, Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea.
DISTRIBUTION.— This species is distributed from Nigeria and Cameroon to Gabon, and eastwards to Rwanda and western Uganda. In Equatorial Guinea, it has been recorded both from Río Muni (Boulenger 1900; De la Riva 1994) and Bioko (Bocage 1895a; Boulenger 1903, 1906a; Mertens 1941, 1965; Zimkus 2009; Zimkus et al. 2010; Taboue and Fokam 2016; Hydeman et al. 2017) (Map 21C).
COMMENTS.— This species seems to be abundant throughout Equatorial Guinea. Populations from Bioko are placed within the same clade of Cameroonian populations (Zimkus et al. 2010). The taxonomic status of P. auritus has been problematic (see Lamotte and Xavier 1966) due to Boulenger’s (1903) synonimization of it with P. plicatus (Günther, 1858), which is its vicariant sister species from West Africa. The identity of P. auritus as a full species and its relationships with P. plicatus have been studied using molecular data by Zimkus et al (2010). Márquez et al. (2000) described the calls for Río Muni populations.
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— Eighty-three specimens. Miboman, Km 27 Bata-Movo (EBD 18294– 18315); Noayong (Evinayong-Aconibe), 16 April 1987 (EBD 25043); Alosa, Niefang (EBD 21032, 21042, 21036–21037, EBD 21028, 21009, 21010, 21013); Ctra Bata-Movo, Km 27, 1984 (EBD 18629). Rebola, Bioko, 13 January 1933 (MNCN 3899); Cabo San Juan, Río Muni, 21 August (MNCN 3951–3992); Caldera de Luba, Bioko, 13 March 2007 (MNCN 46706, 46721); BBPP camp, Caldera de Luba, Bioko, 03°20ʹ47.32ʺN, 08°29ʹ48.44ʺE, 26 November 2003 (MNCN 48891–48894); Red swamp, Caldera de Luba, Bioko, 03°21ʹ27.99ʺN, 08°30ʹ52.11ʺE, 27 November 2003 (MNCN 48895–48899).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BBPP , EBD , LOCALITY , MNCN
- Event date
- 1933-01-13 , 1987-04-16 , 2003-11-26 , 2003-11-27 , 2007-03-13
- Family
- Phrynobatrachidae
- Genus
- Phrynobatrachus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- EBD 18294- 18315 , EBD 18629 , EBD 21032, 21042, 21036-21037, EBD 21028, 21009, 21010, 21013 , EBD 25043 , MNCN 3899 , MNCN 3951-3992 , MNCN 46706, 46721 , MNCN 48891-48894 , MNCN 48895-48899
- Order
- Anura
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Boulenger
- Species
- auritus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1933-01-13 , 1987-04-16 , 2003-11-26 , 2003-11-27 , 2007-03-13
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phrynobatrachus auritus Boulenger, 1900 sec. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher & De, 2020
References
- BOULENGER, G. A. 1900. A list of the batrachians and reptiles of the Gaboon (French Congo), with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 433 - 456.
- DE LA RIVA, I. 1994. Anfibios anuros del Parque Nacional de Monte Alen, Rio Muni, Guinea Ecuatorial. Revista Espanola de Herpetologia 8: 123 - 139.
- BOCAGE, J. V. B. 1895 a. Reptiles et Batraciens nouveaux ou peu connus de Fernao do Po. Jornal de Sciencias Matematicas, Fisicas e Naturais, Academia das Sciencias de Lisboa, ser 2, 4: 16 - 20.
- BOULENGER, G. A. 1903. Batraciens de la Guinee espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Madrid 1: 61 - 64.
- BOULENGER, G. A. 1906 a. Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 3 (2): 157 - 172.
- MERTENS, R. 1941. Zur Kenntnis der Herpetofauna von Fernando Poo. Zoologischer Anzeiger 135: 275 - 281.
- MERTENS, R. 1965. Die Amphibien von Fernando Poo. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage 16: 14 - 29.
- ZIMKUS, B. M. 2009. Biogeographical analysis of Cameroonian puddle frogs and description of a new species of Phrynobatrachus (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) endemic to Mount Oku, Cameroon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (4): 795 - 813.
- ZIMKUS, B. M., M. - O. RODEL, AND A. HILLERS. 2010. Complex patterns of continental speciation: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of sub-Saharan puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 883 - 900.
- HYDEMAN, M. E., A. V. LONGO, G. VELO-ANTON, D. RODRIGUEZ, K. R. ZAMUDIO, AND R. C. BELL. 2017. Prevalence and genetic diversity of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Central African islands and continen-
- MARQUEZ, R., I. DE LA RIVA, AND J. BOSCH. 2000. Advertisement calls of Bufo camerunensis, Chiromantis rufescens, Dimorphognathus africanus and Phrynobatrachus auritus, from Equatorial Guinea (Central Africa). Herpetological Journal 10 (1): 41 - 44.