Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Phrynobatrachus steindachneri Nieden, 1910, Arch. Naturgesch., 76: 241. Syntypes: ZMB (28 specimens, originally) and MCZ 19577 (presumably exchanged from ZMB), according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 450. Type locality: "Banjo", Cameroon; corrected to "Banyo", 200 km ENE Bamenda, Cameroon, by Amiet, 1971 "1970", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 5: 93.

English Names

Steindachner's River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).

Distribution

Mountains of eastern Nigeria (Obudu Plateau) and western Cameroon (Bamenda highlands at Mount Oku, Bangwa, Banyo, the Baboutos Moutains and Foulassi), below 2100 m elevation.

Comment

See account in Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 354-355. See comment under Phrynobatrachus africanus. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 472. In species group C of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900.

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