Trichobatrachus Boulenger, 1900
Trichobatrachus Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 443. Type species: Trichobatrachus robustus Boulenger, 1900, by monotypy.
English Names
Hairy Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 130; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).
Distribution
Osomba Hills (southeastern Nigeria) to Mayombe Hills (Dem. Rep. Congo) and Gabon through western and southwestern Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea; presumably in Rep. Congo and Cabinda enclave, Angola.
Comment
In Astylosternini of 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: 234. Removed from the synonymy of Astylosternus by Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 381, where it had been placed by Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 319.
Contained taxa
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