Wolterstorffina parvipalmata (Werner, 1898) Photo

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 : 158

Wolterstorffina parvipalmata (Werner, 1898) Photo figures 25A–D

TYPE LOCALITY.— “Kamerun?”, Cameroon .

DISTRIBUTION.— It is distributed from eastern Nigeria to Cameroon. There is a single published record of this species in Equatorial Guinea (see supplementary material in Liedke et al. [2016]), where it has been found on Bioko ( Map 27A ).

COMMENTS.— This species was found for the first time in the country by the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program at the surroundings of Moka cascades viewing site (along Illadji River, Bioko). See addendum in Material and Methods. Liedke et al. (2016) sequenced a specimen collected on Bioko in 2015 by R.C. Bell and deposited in the CUMV (Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates) collections.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— We did not find any specimen of this taxon in the collections examined by us in this study.

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MAPS 27A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Wolterstorffina parvipalmata; (B) Arlequinus krebsi; (C) Hyperolius kuligae.