Kassina cassinoides (Boulenger, 1903)

Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé, Ohler, Annemarie, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Luiselli, Luca & Dubois, Alain, 2024, Amphibians of Togo: taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zoosystema 46 (25), pp. 631-670 : 650

Kassina cassinoides (Boulenger, 1903)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Togo • 1 ♂; Kara; MNHN-RA-1998.2304, MNHN-RA-1998.2305 .

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. — Burkina Faso • 1 ♂; Lay ; MNHN-RA-1998.2309 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Samba ; MNHN-RA-1998.2307, MNHN-RA-1998.2308 .

DESCRIPTION. — Medium sized frog (SVL 44-45.3 mm ♂, 50.8- 52.7 mm ♀), with elongated and robust body. Snout rounded. Head wider than long (HW 29-34% SVL; HL 27-30% SVL). Tympanum distinct (TYD 56% SVL). Tibia very short (TL 29- 33% SVL). Webbing absent, phalanges all free. Tips of fingers and toes without discs. Skin uniformly smooth, only the lower parts of the flanks with some glandular warts; belly and chest strongly granular.

COLOURATION. — Dorsal colouration with four continuous longitudinal black stripes alternating, two of which are closer to each other, parallel to the vertebral line. The whole belly is white in females. In males the throat is black.

SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. — The male has a black throat with welldeveloped glandular folds on the subgular vocal sac. Females are distinctly larger than males.

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species occurs in Sudanian savannah ( Rödel 2000; Böhme 2005; Amiet 2012). We recently observed this species in Bounako and Kanté, in ecological zone II. Segniagbeto et al. (2022) reported the presence of this species in ecological zone III. Bourgat (1979) found it in northern Togo.