Ptychadena pumilio (Boulenger, 1920)

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

Ptychadena pumilio (Boulenger, 1920)

Western Dwarf Grass Frog

Material: Female, NGK-Nimba 0069 ( Fig. 13H ) .

Comments: A female P. pumilio was recorded in an open area with a shallow but densely vegetated pond near the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). The species is known from a wide range of habitats from humid to dry savannahs, to open areas in degraded forests, and ranges from southern Mauritania through the savannah belt to eastern Africa (Rödel 2000; Onadeko and Rödel 2008; Padial et al. 2008; Adeba et al. 2010; Channing and Rödel 2019).

Figures

Fig. 13. Pipid and ptychadenid frogs from Mount Nimba Integrated Nature Reserve: Xenopus tropicalis female (A); Ptychadena arnei female (B); P. arnei male (C); P. bibroni male (D); P. longirostris male (E); P. oxyrhynchus male (F); P. pujoli male (G); P. pumilio female (H).