Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Pseudhymenochirus merlini Chabanaud, 1920, Bull. Com. Études Hist. Scient. Afr. Occid. Franç., 1920: 494. Holotype: MNHNP 1920.186, according to R.C. Tinsley in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 426. Type locality: "Guinée Française: Dixine (près Conakry), ... capturé en pêchant au troubleau dans les trous qui abondent à quelque distance au N.-E. du village, entre la ligne du chemin de fer et la route de Conakry au Niger".

Hymenochirus (Pseudhymenochirus) merlini — Lamotte, 1963, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 25: 944-953.

Hymenochirus merlini — Sokol, 1977, J. Morphol., 154: 357.

English Names

Merlin's Clawed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 96).

Distribution

Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Sierra Leone.

Comment

Sokol, 1977, J. Morphol., 154: 357, considered Pseudhymenochirus a primitive Hymenochirus, rather than an intermediate between Hymenochirus and Xenopus as proposed by Dunn, 1948, Am. Mus. Novit., 1384: 5. Geographically, Pseudhymenochirus merlini is separated by 2000 km from the westernmost Hymenochirus (in Nigeria) ( Menzies, 1967, J. West Afr. Sci. Assoc., 12: 23). Not addressed by Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583.

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