Phrynobatrachus tokba (Chabanaud, 1921)

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

Arthroleptis tokba Chabanaud, 1921, Bull. Com. Études Hist. Scient. Afr. Occid. Franç., 1921: 454. Syntypes: MNHNP 1921.144–152, according to the original publication; BMNH 1947.2.6.85–87 (formerly 1921.6.16.5–7), listed by Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 450, presumably by exchange with the MNHNP. Type locality: "N'Zébéla" and "N'Zérékoré", Guinée Française.

Phrynobatrachus tokba — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 207; Guibé and Lamotte, 1958, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 30: 257.

Phrynobatrachus alticola Guibé and Lamotte, 1962 "1961", Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 33: 574. Holotype: MNHNP 8956, by original designation. Type locality: "Forêt arborée, piste de Bié, region du Mont Nimba (Guinée)". Synonymy by Rödel, Kosuch, Kouamé, Ernst, and Veith, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 93.

Common Names

Tokba River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).

Forest River Frog (Phrynobatrachus alticola [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

Tokba Puddle Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 276).

Distribution

 Sierra Leone, southern and northwestern Guinea, Liberia, southwestern Ivory Coast, and isolated population in southwestern Ghana.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

See account by Guibé and Lamotte, 1963, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 66: 601–627 (as Phrynobatrachus alticola). Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 9, reported this species for Ghana (as Phrynobatrachus alticola). Rödel and Branch, 2002, Salamandra, 38: 255, reported this species in Ivory Coast (as Phrynobatrachus alticola). Rödel, Kosuch, Kouamé, Ernst, and Veith, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 93–98, discussed distribution and mtDNA variation. Rödel and Bangoura, 2004, Tropical Zool., 17: 210–211, provided brief comments about specimens from Guinea.Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. Hillers, Ofori-Boateng, Segniagbeto, Agyei, and Rödel, 2009, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 85: 127–141, provided new records in central Ghana. In species group C of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883–900. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 284, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Rödel and Glos, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 26, 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 and habitat preference. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 276–277, 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, and habitat on the Ivory Coast side of Mont Nimba. Hillers, Bangoura, Loua, and Rödel, 2024, in Wright, H.E. et al. (eds.), Rapid Biol. Assess. Boké Pref., NW Guinea: 131–136, commented on habitat of specimens from the Boké Region, northwestern Guinea. Hillers, Bangoura, Loua, and Rödel, 2024, in Wright, H.E. et al. (eds.), Rapid Biol. Assess. Boké Pref., NW Guinea: 131–136, commented on habitat of specimens from the Boké Region, northwestern Guinea. 

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