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Phrynobatrachus leveleve Uyeda, Drewes, and Zimkus, 2007

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Phrynobatrachidae > Genus: Phrynobatrachus

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Phrynobatrachus leveleve Uyeda, Drewes, and Zimkus, 2007, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 58: 371. Holotype: CAS 218901, by original designation. Type locality: "SãO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE: São Tomé Island, Caxueira, along Agua Pete Pete, 0°18′N, 6°44′E, elevation 50 m."

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

São Tomé and Rolas Islands, São Tomé and Principe, Gulf of Guinea.

Comment

Confused with Phrynobatrachus dispar prior to its naming according to the original publication. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature. In species group B of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900.

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