Ptychadena pumilio

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| image = Ptychadena pumilio Bild1222.jpg

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |date=2013 |title=Ptychadena pumilio |volume=2013 |page=e.T58521A18401115 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T58521A18401115.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| taxon = Ptychadena pumilio

| authority = (Boulenger, 1920)

| synonyms =

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Ptychadena pumilio is a species of frog in the family Ptychadenidae.

It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, possibly Burkina Faso, possibly Chad, possibly Gambia, possibly Ghana, possibly Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, possibly Liberia, possibly Mauritania, possibly Niger, possibly Sudan, possibly Togo, and possibly Uganda.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, rural gardens, ponds, and canals and ditches.