Phrynobatrachus tokba ( Chabanaud, 1921 )

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

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11287356

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Phrynobatrachus tokba ( Chabanaud, 1921 )
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Phrynobatrachus tokba ( Chabanaud, 1921) View in CoL

Tokba Puddle Frog

Material: Female, NGK-Nimba 0038 ( Fig. 12G View Fig ).

Comments: Phrynobatrachus tokba occurs in primary to degraded forests, and montane grassland, from western Guinea to Ghana ( Guibé and Lamotte 1963; Rödel et al. 2004, 2005; Kouamé et al. 2018; Channing and Rödel 2019). This species reproduces terrestrially, by depositing clutches in moist leaves, and has non-feeding, non-hatching tadpoles (Rödel and Ernst 2002b). A large number of P. tokba males called in the drier part of the forest. A brown female measured 18.0 mm. Further populations were detected in moist savannah adjacent to forest, and even in sympatry with Nimbaphrynoides occidentalis up to 1,235 m asl in montane grasslands (07°35.555’N, 008°25.788’W; Fig. 12H View Fig ).

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