Phrynobatrachus africanus (Hallowell, 1858)
Heteroglossa africana Hallowell, 1858 "1857", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 9: 64. Holotype: ANSP 3215, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 349. Type locality: "Gaboon".
Arthroleptis africana — Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 649. by implication; Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 441.
Arthroleptis ? africanus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 119.
Arthroleptis gabonensis Mocquard, 1897, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 3: 55. also described as new by Mocquard, 1897, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 8, 9: 17. Holotype: MNHNP 1896.569, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 44. Type locality: "Lambaréné", Gabon. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 441; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 44; Perret, 1959, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 82: 252, and Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 367.
Arthroleptis verrucosus Werner, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 194. Holotype: ZMB, by original designation. Type locality: "Kamerun". Synonymy by Perret, 1959, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 82: 252, and Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 367.
Phrynobatrachus latirostris Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 440. Holotype: BMNH. 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" (Gabon). Synonymy by Perret, 1959, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 82: 252, and Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 367.
Dimorphognathus africanus — Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 321.
Phrynobatrachus africanus — 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: 366.
English Names
African Swamp Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).
Distribution
Western Cameroon to southern Gabon through Equatorial Guinea and southwestern Central African Republic and western Rep. Congo to north-central Dem. Rep. Congo; Bioko; possibly into adjacent Nigeria.
Comment
Perret and Mertens, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 548-601, reported this species under the name Phrynobatrachus steindachneri, according to Perret, 1959, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 82: 252. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 132, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea (as Dimorphognathus africanus). Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 386, reported this species from Gabon (as Dimorphognathus africanus). Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21-34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature. Penner and Rödel, 2007, in Butynski and McCullough (eds.), RAP Bull. Biol. Assessment, 46: 37-41, provided a record for north-central Dem. Rep. Congo. In species group C of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900.
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