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Ptychadena submascareniensis (Guibé and Lamotte, 1953)
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 submascareniensis — Lamotte, 1958, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 20: 1464-1482; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56, by implication.
Rana (Ptychadena) submascareniensis — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication.
Ptychadena (Ptychadena) submascareniensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.
English 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, and adjacent Liberia and Ivory Coast.
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.
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