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Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift
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- Greenbaum, Eli1
- Portik, Daniel M.2
- Allen, Kaitlin E.3
- Vaughan, Eugene R.1
- Badjedjea, Gabriel4
- Barej, Michael F.5
- Behangana, Mathias6
- Conkey, Nancy1
- Dumbo, Bonny7
- Gonwouo, Legrand N.8
- Hirschfeld, Mareike5
- Hughes, Daniel F.9
- Igunzi, Félix10
- Kusamba, Chifundera11
- Lukwago, Wilber6
- Masudi, Franck M.
- Penner, Johannes5
- Reyes, Jesús M.1
- Rödel, Mark-Oliver5
- Roelke, Corey E.
- Romero, Soraya1
- Dehling, J. Maximilian
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX 79912, USA
- 2. Herpetology Department, Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
- 3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
- 4. Department of Ecology and Aquatic Biodiversity, Biodiversity Monitoring Centre, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 5. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin-Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
- 6. Department of Environment & Social Safeguards (DESS), Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), P.O. Box 28487, Kampala, Uganda
- 7. Conservation of Biodiversity and Natural Resources and Climate Protection by Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry at Cyamudongo Forest (Rwanda), c/o Cooperation University of Koblenz-Landau/Rwanda, SH8 AVE 26, PO Box 344, Huye, Rwanda
- 8. Laboratory of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, P.O. Box 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- 9. Department of Biology, Coe College, 1220 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402, USA
- 10. Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, P.O. Box 852, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 11. Laboratoire d'Hérpétologie, Département de Biologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles, Lwiro, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Greenbaum, Eli, Portik, Daniel M., Allen, Kaitlin E., Vaughan, Eugene R., Badjedjea, Gabriel, Barej, Michael F., Behangana, Mathias, Conkey, Nancy, Dumbo, Bonny, Gonwouo, Legrand N., Hirschfeld, Mareike, Hughes, Daniel F., Igunzi, Félix, Kusamba, Chifundera, Lukwago, Wilber, Masudi, Franck M., Penner, Johannes, Reyes, Jesús M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Roelke, Corey E., Romero, Soraya, Dehling, J. Maximilian (2022): Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift. Zootaxa 5174 (3): 201-232, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.1
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