Trichobatrachus robustus Boulenger, 1900
Trichobatrachus robustus Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 443. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Benito River", elsewhere in the original publication suggested to be "Benito River, north of the Gaboon River between 20 and 30 miles inland from the coast, Gaboon", Equatorial Guinea.
Astylosternus robustus — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 319. Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 159.
English Names
Hairy Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 159; 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
See brief account in Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 381-382. Gabon record by Lötters, Gossmann, Obame, and Böhme, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 22. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 48-49, provided records for Nigeria.
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