• DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.10
Corpus ID: 14576103

Relicts of a forested past: Southernmost distribution of the hairy frog genus Trichobatrachus Boulenger, 1900 (Anura: Arthroleptidae) in the Serra do Pingano region of Angola with comments on its taxonomic status.

@article{Ernst2014RelictsOA,
  title={Relicts of a forested past: Southernmost distribution of the hairy frog genus Trichobatrachus Boulenger, 1900 (Anura: Arthroleptidae) in the Serra do Pingano region of Angola with comments on its taxonomic status.},
  author={R. Ernst and Alvaro Bruno Toto Nienguesso and T. Lautenschl{\"a}ger and M. Barej and A. Schmitz and Monique H{\"o}lting},
  journal={Zootaxa},
  year={2014},
  volume={3779},
  pages={
          297-300
        }
}

R. Ernst, Alvaro Bruno Toto Nienguesso, +3 authors Monique Hölting

Published 2014

Biology, Medicine

Zootaxa

The monotypic genus Trichobatrachus, with its sole representative, the hairy frog, Trichobatrachus robustus Boulenger, 1900, could be considered one of the most well-known frogs of Africa. Despite its broad recognition and the fact that it is considered wide-spread and locally common (Amiet & Burger 2004), surprisingly little is known about the actual distribution and the specific occurrence patterns of the species. It was originally described by Boulenger (1900) from the Benito River… CONTINUE READING

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