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Issue: Vol. 3981 No. 4: 7 Jul. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-07-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.4.10
Page range: 597–600
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 1

The tadpole of the Lake Oku clawed frog Xenopus longipes (Anura; Pipidae)

Zoological Society of London (ZSL), Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, United Kingdom.
Zoological Society of London (ZSL), Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, United Kingdom.
Conservation Research and Action for Amphibians of Cameroon (CRAAC), Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh Zoo, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; and, School of Geography and School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
Amphibia Anura Pipidae

Abstract

Xenopus longipes Loumont and Kobel, 1991 is an aquatic polyploid frog endemic to the high altitude crater lake, Lake Oku in North West region, Cameroon (Loumont & Kobel 1991). The tadpole of X. longipes is currently undescribed. So far, only dead tadpoles have been found at Lake Oku during regular monitoring since 2008 (Doherty-Bone et al. 2013), with specimens too decomposed to make adequate descriptions. Captive breeding provides one opportunity to obtain fresh specimens for description.