Hylambates dorsalis

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Hylambates dorsalis is a name given to a frog specimen now in the Berlin's Natural History Museum. It was proposed as the type species of the genus Dendrobatorana, but both taxa are considered as nomina inquirenda , a name that cannot be related to any known species in the wild. [1] Its type locality is "Yoruba (Lagos)"; [1] however, this seems erroneous as the holotype appears to be an Asian member of the family Rhacophoridae. Distribution and ecology of this frog are unknown. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. Neil Cox, Simon Stuart (2004). "Hylambates dorsalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2004: e.T54399A11134651. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T54399A11134651.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.