Phrynobatrachus fraterculus ( Chabanaud, 1921 )

Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N’Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) 15 (1), pp. 71-107 : 90

Phrynobatrachus fraterculus ( Chabanaud, 1921)

Brother’s Puddle Frog

Material: Female, NGK-Nimba 072 ( Fig. 11F ) .

Comments: Phrynobatrachus fraterculus is known to inhabit degraded forest and forest edges in the western part of the Upper Guinea forest region ( Guibé and Lamotte 1963; Rödel and Bangoura 2004; Rödel and Glos 2019). A female (24.0 mm) was found in leaf litter near a shallow creek in a small clearing (07°33.121’N, 008°25.036’W; 422 m asl). In Ivory Coast, the species had been recorded previously in the Taï National Park (Ernst and Rödel 2006; Hillers et al. 2008c).

Figures

Fig. 11. Hyperoliid, odontobatrachid, and phrynobatrachid frogs from Mount Nimba Integrated Nature Reserve: Kassina cochranae male (A); Odontobatrachus arndti male (B); Phrynobatrachus alleni male (C); P. annulatus male (D); P. francisci female (E); P. fraterculus female (F); P. guineensis male (G); P. gutturosus female (H).