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Amphibians
Leptopelis aubryioides (Andersson, 1907)
Nomenclature
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Subfamily: Leptopelinae Laurent, 1972Genus: Leptopelis Günther, 1859
SUMMARY
This taxon, described by Andersson (1907) as Hylambates rufus var. aubryioides, was placed as junior synonym of Leptopelis modestus by Ahl (1929). Thereafter, this taxon was largely omitted and not metioned in the literature anymore, although J.-L. Perret examined the 3 Wiesbaden syntypes in 1975 and concluded (according to an additional jar label) that they are conspecific with L. calcaratus, but this identification was never published. Later, Amiet (1992) described the somewhat cryptic species L. omissus which is morphologically similar to L. calcaratus. Re-examination of the syntypes of Hylambates rufus aubryoides revealed that they are neither conspecific with L. modestus, nor with L. calcaratus, but actually are conspecific with L. omissus. Consequently, Köhler (2009) removed L. aubryioides from the synonymy of L. modestus and regarded it a valid species, with L. omissus placed as its junior synonym.