Ptychadena submascareniensis (Guibé and Lamotte, 1953)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Ptychadena > Species: Ptychadena submascareniensis

Rana (Ptychadena) submascareniensis Guibé and Lamotte, 1953, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 25: 361. Syntypes: MNHNP 51.198, 51.205, by original designation. Type locality: "Massif du Nimba (Haute-Guinée française)", Guinea.

Ptychadena submascareniensisLamotte, 1958, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 20: 1464-1482; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56, by implication.

Rana (Ptychadena) submascareniensisDubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication.

Ptychadena (Ptychadena) submascareniensisDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.

Common Names

Guinea Grassland Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Small Grass Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 326). 

Distribution

Loma Mountains in Sierra Leone; Mount Béro, the Simandou Range, and Mount Nimba in southeastern Guinea, adjacent Liberia, and Ivory Coast. 

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 139-140, provided an account. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 313, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 326–327, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. 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. In the Ptychadena mascarenensis group of Nečas, Mazuch, Czurda, Elmi, Rödel, and Gvoždík, 2025, Afr. J. Herpetol., 73: 236–260.

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