Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864)

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 : 92

Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864)

Tropical Clawed Frog

Material: Two females, NGK-Nimba 0001 ( Fig. 13 A ), NGK-Nimba 0002, and two males, NGK-Nimba 0003, NGK-Nimba 0006.

Comments : This pipid lives in forests, degraded forests, and gallery forests in humid savannahs from Senegal to western Cameroon (Rödel 2000). The species was seen in flooded paddy fields in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). In the dry season, frogs were easily caught in patches of the same shallow swamps. Some juvenile frogs measured 21.5–30.0 mm (N = 5), adult males reached 32.4–42.5 mm (N = 5), and adult females ranged from 48.3–53.3 mm (N = 4).

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).