West African Rubber Frog

West African Rubber Frog
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Phrynomantis
Species: P. microps
Binomial name
Phrynomantis microps
Peters, 1875

The West African Rubber Frog (Phrynomantis microps) is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, possibly Chad, possibly Gambia, possibly Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, possibly Mauritania, possibly Niger, and possibly Sudan and west Ethiopia - Gambella. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, and pastureland.

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