Phrynobatrachus phyllophilus Rödel and Ernst, 2002

Leaf-loving Puddle Frog

Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0037 (Fig. 12F).

Comments: Phrynobatrachus phyllophilus prefers patches of swampy primary forest from eastern Ivory Coast to Sierra Leone (Rödel and Ernst 2002a; Ernst and Rödel 2006; Kouamé et al. 2008, 2014, 2018; Channing and Rödel 2019). We found only one male (15.0 mm) during the rainy season. It was concealed among dense leaf litter, in a patch of dense forest, intersected by a small stream (07°32.993’N, 008°24.753’W; 425 m asl).