Strongylopus kitumbeine

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Pyxicephalidae
Subfamilia: Cacosterninae
Genus: Strongylopus
Species: Strongylopus kitumbeine

• Status:   junior subjective synonym  

Name

Strongylopus kitumbeine Channing & Davenport, 2002: 137

• Holotype: CAS 225064.
• Type locality: “Kitumbeine Forest” on Kitumbeine Mountain, an extinct volcano in northern Tanzania.
• Synonymised with Strongylopus merumontanus (Lönnberg, 1907), by Channing, Schmitz, Zancolli, Conradie & Rödel (2022: 254).

References

Primary references

• Channing, A. & Davenport, T.R.B. 2002. A new stream frog from Tanzania (Anura: Ranidae: Strongylopus). African Journal of Herpetology 51: 135–142.
• Channing, A., Schmitz, A., Zancolli, G., Conradie, W. & Rödel, M.-O. 2022. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the African frog genus Strongylopus (Anura: Pyxicephalidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 129(1): 243–281 DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0074 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Kitumbeine Stream Frog