Afrixalus nigeriensis Schiøtz, 1963
Afrixalus congicus nigeriensis Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 54. Holotype: ZMUC R071554, by original designation. Type locality: "waterholes just south of Iperin, Ijebu Province, W., Nigeria".
Afrixalus nigeriensis — Perret, 1976, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 99: 28. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 51.
English Names
Nigeria Banana Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 66).
Distribution
Rainforest from extreme southeastern Guinea through Ivory Coast to western Nigeria and Liberia; apparently absent from Togo and Benin.
Comment
Rödel and Branch, 2002, Salamandra, 38: 260, confirmed the existence of this species in western forests of Ivory Coast. Segniagbeto, Bowessidjaou, Dubois, and Ohler, 2007, Alytes, 24: 76, did not list this species in Togo. Hillers and Rödel, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 1-10, reported the species in Liberia. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 617.
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