Revision of the genus Werneria Poche, 1903, including the descriptions of two new species from Cameroon and Gabon (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae)

MARK-OLIVER RÖDEL; ANDREAS SCHMITZ; OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS; WOLFGANG BÖHME

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.720.1.1

Issue: Vol. 720 No. 1: 11 Nov. 2004

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Published: 2004-11-11

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.720.1.1

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**Revision of the genus Werneria Poche, 1903, including the descriptions of two new species from Cameroon and Gabon (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae)**

MARK-OLIVER RÖDEL⁺⁻
ANDREAS SCHMITZ⁺⁻
OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS⁺⁻
WOLFGANG BÖHME⁺⁻

Theodor-Boveri-Institute (Biocenter of the University), Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III), Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany University of Mainz, Institute of Zoology, Department of Ecology, Saarstrasse 21, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology, C.P. 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland

Department of Recent Vertebrates, Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 29 rue Vautier, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Konrad-Adenauer Allee 150-164, D-53113 Bonn, Germany

Amphibia Anura Bufonidae Werneria bambutensis Werneria iboundji nov. sp. Werneria mertensiana Werneria preussi Werneria submontana nov. sp. Werneria tandyi Cameroon Gabon Africa

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Abstract

We review and summarize present knowledge of the western Central African toad genus Werneria, and describe two new species. Both new species seem to be more closely related to W. mertensiana, W. tandyi and W. preussi than to W. bambutensis. Werneria submontana nov. sp., from Mt. Kupe and the Bakossi Mts., Cameroon, is unique in having a wrinkled throat skin in adults and has a unique combination of other morphological and colour characters. Werneria iboundji nov. sp. is only known from its type locality, Mt. Iboundji, and represents the first record of this genus from Gabon. It is characterized by extensive webbing of the toes, slender, almost straight body shape, truncate snout, and colour.

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