Leptopelis Günther, 1859

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta, Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago & De, Ignacio, 2020, Synopsis of the Amphibians of Equatorial Guinea based upon the Authors’ Field Work and Spanish Natural History Collections, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (8), pp. 137-230 : 151-152

Leptopelis Günther, 1859

Leptopelis aubryi (Duméril, 1856) Photo figures 8A–B Type locality.— Gabon .

DISTRIBUTION.— It is distributed from southern Nigeria to Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic, including Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, where it has been recorded in Río Muni at Cabo San Juan ( Boulenger 1903) and Monte Alén ( De la Riva 1994), and on Bioko at Moka ( Hydeman et al. 2017); more recently, it was also reported from Angola ( Marques et al. 2018). Our revision provides additional records from Río Muni ( Map 7B ). Descriptions of the advertisement calls from Monte Alén were provided by Bosch et al. (2000).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— Twelve specimens. Miboman , Movo, Bata, Litoral, Río Muni, 08 September 1984 ( EBD 18251 ) , 24 August 1987 ( EBD 27501–27505 ) ; Miboman , Bata, April 1988 ( EBD 27836 , 27838 ) , December 1988 ( EBD 27838 ) ; Akurenam Centro Sur, 27 August 1984 ( EBD

18426); Cabo San Juan , Río Muni, 08 September 1901 ( MNCN 3999 ), 25 August 1901 ( MNCN 4004 ) .

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MAPS 7A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Trichobatrachus robustus; (B) Leptopelis aubryi; (C) Leptopelis boulengeri.