How many species and under what names? Using DNA barcoding and GenBank data for west Central African amphibian conservation

• Jessica L. Deichmann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jessiedeichmann@gmail.com

  Affiliation Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-3515

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• Daniel G. Mulcahy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Genome Initiative, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Hadrien Vanthomme,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Elie Tobi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Addison H. Wynn,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Breda M. Zimkus,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Roy W. McDiarmid

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USGS, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, United States of America

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