Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylambates cassinoides Boulenger, 1903, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 12: 556. Holotype: BMNH. Type locality: "McCarthy Island, Gambia".

Kassina cassinoides — Laurent and Combaz, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 43: 271. Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 16.

Kassina (Kassina) cassinoides — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 37.

English Names

Silver Running Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 68).

Large Running Frog (Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 14).

Distribution

Disjunct populations in dry savanna of West Africa from Gambia and southern Senegal to southern Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, northern Ghana, and northern Cameroon.

Comment

Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 255-257, provided an account. Böhme, 2005, Herpetozoa, 18: 177-178, discussed the range and provided a record for Senegal. Padial and De la Riva, 2004, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 18: 96, suggested that this species will be found in southern Mauritania. Wanger, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 27-33, provided Gambia records. Nago, Grell, Sinsin, and Rödel, 2006, Salamandra, 42: 93-108, provided a record for Benin. Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 6-16, provided a record for Gambia. Amiet, 2007, Rev. Suisse Zool., 114: 123-124, reviewed the species in Cameroon. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 407-412.

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