Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Günther, 1858)

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 : 84

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11287267

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EEFC14-FFB2-FFCC-FF7C-863FA6CF7A1D

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scientific name

Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Günther, 1858)
status

 

Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Günther, 1858) View in CoL

African Tiger Frog

Material: Female, NGK-Nimba 0005 ( Fig. 8C View Fig ).

Comments: Hoplobatrachus occipitalis is a large aquatic frog that is widely distributed in savannahs and disturbed forests across tropical Africa   GoogleMaps ( Channing and Rödel 2019). A female was caught at night near a stream within pastures (07°35.453’N, 008°24.957’W; 843 m asl). Males   GoogleMaps were heard calling at night, concealed in rice paddies in Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). In the rainy season, adult frogs were occasionally collected and eaten by the local populations around the MNINR (Zogbassé et al., unpub. data).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Dicroglossidae

Genus

Hoplobatrachus

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