Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Kassina fusca Schiøtz, 1967, Spolia Zool. Mus. Haun., 25: 79. Holotype: ZMUC R073869, by original designation. Type locality: "9 ml. n. [mi. N] of Walewale ('ml. 77 1/2'), Ghana".

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

English Names

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

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

Distribution

Senegal and central-northern Guinea to western Nigeria in savanna.

Comment

Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 258-261, provided an account. 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 records for Gambia. Hillers, Loua, and Rödel, 2008, Salamandra, 44: 113-122, provided the first record from Guinea. See comment by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 565, regarding the possibility of this species occurring in Cameroon.

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