Phrynobatrachus alleni Parker, 1936

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Phrynobatrachidae > Genus: Phrynobatrachus > Species: Phrynobatrachus alleni

Phrynobatrachus alleni Parker, 1936, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 19: 91. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.4.33 (formerly 1929.6.1.2), according to Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 443. Type locality: "Firestone Plantation, Du River, Liberia".

Phrynobatrachus (Phrynobatrachus) alleniLaurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 201.

English Names

Allen's River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

Allen's Puddle Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 292). 

Distribution

Western Sierra Leone, southern Guinea, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, southern Ghana, to eastern Nigeria, presumably in the intervening areas of Togo and Benin.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

Comment

See account by Guibé and Lamotte, 1963, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 66: 601–627. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 42, provided records for Nigeria. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 627–628. In species group C of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883–900. Rödel and Glos, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 24, reported this species from the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area in southeastern Liberia and the Foya Proposed Protected Area in western Liberia, and commented on identification, suggesting it is a species complex, and habitat preference. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 292–293, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. In the Phrynobatrachus natalensis group of Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, and Boissinot, 2019, ZooKeys, 824: 53–70. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbass, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène, and Rödel, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15: 71–107, commented on conservation status, identification, range, breeding behavior, and habitat on the Ivory Coast side of Mont Nimba.

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