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Phrynobatrachus sandersoni (Parker, 1935)
Phrynodon sandersoni Parker, 1935, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 16: 403. Holotype: BMNH 1907.5.22.76, by original designation and according to J.-L. Perret In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 443. Type locality: "5 miles inland from Kribi, S. Cameroon".
Phrynobatrachus sandersoni — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 366.
English Names
Sanderson's Hook Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).
Sanderson's Puddle Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 270).
Distribution
Southwestern Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea in lowland and lower montane forest.
Comment
See brief account in Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 368–369. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 134, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21–34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. In species group A of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883–900. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 282–283, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 34, summarized the literature for Gabon. In the Phrynobatrachus krefftii group of Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, and Boissinot, 2019, ZooKeys, 824: 53–70. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 270–271, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See brief account, range map, and photographs for Equatorial Guinea in Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 137–230.
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