Phrynobatrachus tokba (Chabanaud, 1921)

Tokba Puddle Frog

Material: Female, NGK-Nimba 0038 (Fig. 12G).

Comments: Phrynobatrachus tokba occurs in primary to degraded forests, and montane grassland, from western Guinea to Ghana (Guibé and Lamotte 1963; Rödel et al. 2004, 2005; Kouamé et al. 2018; Channing and Rödel 2019). This species reproduces terrestrially, by depositing clutches in moist leaves, and has non-feeding, non-hatching tadpoles (Rödel and Ernst 2002b). A large number of P. tokba males called in the drier part of the forest. A brown female measured 18.0 mm. Further populations were detected in moist savannah adjacent to forest, and even in sympatry with Nimbaphrynoides occidentalis up to 1,235 m asl in montane grasslands (07°35.555’N, 008°25.788’W; Fig. 12H).