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Phrynobatrachus acutirostris Nieden, 1912
Phrynobatrachus acutirostris Nieden, 1912 "1911", Wissenschaft. Ergebn. Deutschen Zentral Afr. Exped., 4: 173. Holotype: Presumably ZMB. Type locality: "Rugegewald", Lake Region of Central Africa.
Hylarthroleptis acutirostris — Ahl, 1925 "1923", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1923: 103.
Phrynobatrachus acutirostris — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 160.
Phrynodon acutirostris — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 419.
English Names
Rugegewald River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).
Sharp-snouted Puddle Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 274).
Distribution
Lake Region (imprecise) adn Tumungu of eastern Dem. Rep. Congo, northwestern Burundi, and western Rwanda.
Comment
See De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 33: 70–73, for review. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 470, who commented on the imprecisely delimited range. In species group A of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883–900. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 274–275, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. In the Phrynobatrachus krefftii group of Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, and Boissinot, 2019, ZooKeys, 824: 53–70.
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