Phrynobatrachus villiersi Guibé, 1959
Phrynobatrachus villiersi Guibé, 1959, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 31: 134. Holotype: MNHNP 1958.485, by original designation. Type locality: "Yapo, (Côte d'Ivoire)".
English Names
Yapo River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).
Distribution
Seemingly two allopatric populations: southwestern Ivory Coast, possibly into adjacent southeastern Liberia, and southeastern Ivory Coast and southwestern Ghana.
Comment
See Perret, 1988, Arch. Sci., Genève, 41: 284-286, for account. Hillers and Rödel, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 1-10, provided a record for Liberia. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-172, summarized the literature. 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: 473. In species group B of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900.
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