Ptychadena gansi Laurent, 1965
Ptychadena gansi Laurent In Gans, Laurent, and Pandit, 1965, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 134: 18. Holotype: MCZ 36327, by original designation. Type locality: "2 km north of Afgoi, Benadir Province, Somali Republic". Synonymy by Lanza, 1990, Biogeographia, 14: 410.
Rana (Ptychadena) gansi — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233. by implication.
Rana (Ptychadena) mosambica — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233. by implication.
Ptychadena (Ptychadena) gansi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southern Somalia, largely in the floodplains of the Jubba and Webi Shabeelle Rivers.
Comment
Without discussion considered to likely be a junior synonym of adjacent Ptychadena mossambica by Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 16. This synonymy not accepted by J.L. Perret, personal communication.
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