Tomopterna wambensis Wasonga and Channing, 2013

Kirchhof, Sebastian, Wasonga, Victor, Mazuch, Tomáš, Spawls, Stephen & Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta, 2023, An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 324) 17 (1 / 2), pp. 1-18 : 5

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12761910

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12761901

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scientific name

Tomopterna wambensis Wasonga and Channing, 2013
status

 

Tomopterna wambensis Wasonga and Channing, 2013 View in CoL

Vouchers: NMK-1815 (field nos. SK16 1024, SK16 1071, SK16 1084, SK 1111)

Localities: IL (G, R), KA ( R), KF ( R), LO ( R), TBI Remarks: This medium-sized, stout, semi-fossorial frog was quite common in the study area. Its inner metatarsal tubercle is used for digging into the soil of dry riverbeds in order to reach moister areas and survive droughts, and the outer metatarsal tubercle is absent. It can be further identified by its interrupted glandular ridges below the tympanum.

As soon as a few drops of rain fell – often during the night – the buried individuals of T. wambensis ( Fig. 3F View Fig ) appeared on the surface. On 28 March 2017, tens to hundreds of individuals were calling in the late morning (0900–1100 h) together with Poyntonophrynus lughensis in a temporary water body created by recent rainfalls in the usually dry bushland in front of the TBI. For one individual, an internal field body temperature ( T b) of 29.4 °C was recorded at an air temperature ( T a) of 30 °C and substrate temperature ( T sub) of 21 °C.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

LO

Type Collection

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Pyxicephalidae

Genus

Tomopterna

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