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Cardioglossa escalerae Boulenger 1903

  • 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

Cardioglossa escalerae Boulenger, 1903

TYPE LOCALITY.— “Cap Saint Jean, Guinée espagnole” (Cabo San Juan, Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea).

DISTRIBUTION.— This species occurs in lowland rainforests from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea to Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. In Equatorial Guinea, it has been recorded at the type locality, and at Monte Alén by Lasso et al. (2002) (Map 4A).

COMMENTS.— This is a poorly known species. Amiet and Goutte (2017) provided an account including the call spectrum.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— No specimens were found in the collections examined by us in this study.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 137-230 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (8) on page 149, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11105986

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References

  • BOULENGER, G. A. 1903. Batraciens de la Guinee espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Madrid 1: 61 - 64.
  • LASSO, C. A., A. I. RIAL, J. CASTROVIEJO, AND I. DE LA RIVA. 2002. Herpetofauna del Parque Nacional de Monte Alen (Rio Muni, Guinea Ecuatorial). Graellsia 58: 21 - 34.