Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana (Ptychadena) retropunctata Angel, 1949, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 21: 509. Syntypes: MNHNP 225-228, 9673, according to XXX. Type locality: "Ziéla (mare en savane-prarie, en pleine saison des pluies)", Mt. Nimba, Guinea.

Rana (Ptychadena) retropunctata — Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 958. Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233; by implication.

Ptychadena retropunctata — Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Ptychadena (Ptychadena) retropunctata — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.

English Names

Cameroon Grassland Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105).

Distribution

Mt. Nimba region of West Africa in Guinea and Sierra Leone, possibly into Liberia.

Comment

See Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 23. Removed from the synonymy of Rana maccarthyensis by Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1955, Rev. Suisse Zool., 62: 130. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 140-141, provided an account. See brief comments by Rödel, Bangoura, and Böhme, 2004, Herpetozoa, 17: 105-106, regarding range and natural history.

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