[2][3] The IUCN Red List includes the following West African countries (in alphabetic order): Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

[1] The common name of this species refers to its describer, German zoologist Ernst Ahl.

They are characterized by moderate webbing in their toes (also considered well-developed[3]), absence of eyelid spine, lack of enlarged discs of finger and toes, and a yellow throat in breeding males.

It inhabits wooded and open savanna, secondary forest, degraded former forest, agricultural areas, and inselbergs in rainforest, but avoids closed primary rainforest.

It breeds in temporary ponds, puddles, and roadside ditches.