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).