''Afrixalus lindholmi'' is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

in the family

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. It is

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Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

and only known from the

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collected in Bibundi, in the coastal area of

Mount Cameroon Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in the Southwest Region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako (the name of the higher of its two peaks) or by its indigenous ...

. Its taxonomic validity is in question.

Etymology

The

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''lindholmi'' honours

Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm Vasiliy Adolfovich Lindholm (; 1874 – 17 September 1935), also published as Wilhelm Adolf Lindholm, was a Russian malacologist and herpetologist. Lindholm was a curator at the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Acade ...

, a Russian zoologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Accordingly, common name Lindholm's Banana frog has been coined for this species.

Taxonomy and description

The

is a female measuring in snout–vent length. The tympanum is small but distinct. The specimen resembles a juvenile ''

Leptopelis ''Leptopelis'' is a genus of frogs in the family Arthroleptidae. They are found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Afric ...

'', but is evidently an adult because it has about one hundred eggs in its ovaries. This number is much higher than is typical for ''Afrixalus'' species, and Amiet (2009) suggests that the placement of this species in ''Afrixalus'' should be considered ''

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'' only. Some specimens now recognized as '' Afrixalus lacteus'' were allocated to ''Afrixalus lindholmi'' before the

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of ''A. lacteus'' in 1976.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2246682 lindholmi Frogs of Africa Amphibians of Cameroon Endemic fauna of Cameroon Taxa named by Lars Gabriel Andersson Amphibians described in 1907 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot