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Hyperolius phantasticus

  • 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

Hyperolius phantasticus (Boulenger 1899)

TYPE LOCALITY.— “ Benito River, French Congo”, currently Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea.

DISTRIBUTION.— This species ranges from southwestern Cameroon and Gabon to Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo. In Equatorial Guinea, it was recorded from Río Muni by Boulenger (1899a) (Map 18A).

COMMENTS.— Since Boulenger (1899 a, 1900) no specimens of this species have been recorded.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— No specimens of this taxon 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 pages 162-163, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11105986

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References

  • BOULENGER, G. A. 1899 a. Descriptions of new batrachians in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 3: 273 - 277.
  • 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.