Ptychadena retropunctata ( Angel, 1949 )

Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N’Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) 15 (1), pp. 71-107 : 94

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11287122

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11287379

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scientific name

Ptychadena retropunctata ( Angel, 1949 )
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Ptychadena retropunctata ( Angel, 1949) View in CoL

Nimba Grass Frog

Material: Two males, NGK-Nimba 0060 , NGK-Nimba 0061 , and two females, NGK-Nimba 0062 , NGK-Nimba 0063 ( Fig. 14A View Fig ) .

Comments: Five P. retropunctata were recorded on a high plateau with predominantly grassy mountain pastures and herbaceous vegetation (07°35.453’N, 008°24.957’W; 843 m asl). The SULs of males varied from 28.0– 30.5 mm (N = 3), while two females measured 29.0 and 37.5 mm. Whereas four frogs were rust-colored, a female had a deep brown dorsum. In contrast to Rödel (2000) and Channing and Rödel (2019), who describe a white venter, our specimens had a yellow venter. The species was described previously from Mounts Nimba ( Angel 1949). Further records became known only from a few montane localities in southeastern Guinea (summarized in Rödel et al. 2004), the Loma Mountains in Sierra Leone ( Lamotte 1971), northern Guinea ( Hillers et al. 2006), and southeastern Senegal ( Monasterio et al. 2016). This is the first country record for P. retropunctata in Ivory Coast.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Ptychadenidae

Genus

Ptychadena

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