Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Phrynobatrachus auritus Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 440. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.30.2-4 (formerly 1900.2.17.83-85), according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 444. 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).

Phrynobatrachus discodactylus Boulenger, 1919, Rev. Zool. Afr., 7: 7. Syntypes: (6 specimens) MRAC and BMNH. Type locality: "Madié [= Medje] (Ituri)", Dem. Rep. Congo. Synonymy by Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 355.

Phrynobatrachus plicatus auritus — Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 355.

Phrynobatrachus auritus — Lamotte and Xavier, 1966, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 28: 1614.

English Names

Eared River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

Golden Puddle Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 274).

Distribution

Forests of Nigeria, South Cameroon to Gabon, southwestern Central African Republic, northern Dem. Rep. Congo east to Rwanda and western Uganda; possibly to Cabinda enclave of Angola.

Comment

See Lamotte and Xavier, 1966, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 28: 1605-1619. An eastern vicariant of Phrynobatrachus plicatus according to R. Laurent in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 444, with which it has been confused. J.-L. Perret (personal communication to Frost) has suggested that Phynobatrachus discodactylus is a distinct species representing the eastern Dem. Rep. Congo and Rwanda component of the stated distribution. Removed from the synonymy of Phrynobatrachus plicatus by Lamotte and Xavier, 1966, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 28: 1614, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1903, Mem. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 1: 62, and Andersson, 1905, Ark. Zool., 2(20): 12. De la Riva, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 134, provided a record for Equatorial Guinea. Frétey and Blanc, 2001, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 386, reported this species from Gabon. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 274-275, provided an account for East Africa. 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. In species group C of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900.

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