List of amphibian species (Vertebrata, Tetrapoda) of Burkina Faso
Author
Ayoro, Halamoussa Joëlle
Laboratoire de Biologie et Ecologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) halamoussa. joelle @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
joelle@gmail.com
Author
Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé
Laboratoire d’Écologie et d’Écotoxicologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) gsegniagbeto @ gmail. com
gsegniagbeto@gmail.com
Author
Hema, Emmanuel Midibahaye
Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) hema. emmanuel @ yahoo. fr
emmanuel@yahoo.fr
Author
Penner, Johannes
Chair of Wildlife Ecology & Management, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Strasse 4, 79106 Freiburg (Germany) johannes. penner @ wildlife. uni-freiburg. de
penner@wildlife.uni
Author
Oueda, Adama
Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) oueda 14 @ yahoo. fr
Author
Dubois, Alain
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 30, F- 75005, Paris (France) alain. dubois @ mnhn. fr
dubois@mnhn.fr
Author
Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin (Germany )) Mark-Oliver. Roedel @ mfn. berlin
oedel@mfn.berlin
Author
Kabré, Gustave Boureima
Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) gkabre 2 @ gmail. com
Author
Ohler, Annemarie
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 30, F- 75005, Paris (France) annemarie. ohler @ mnhn. fr
ohler@mnhn.fr
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Zoosystema
2020
2020-11-05
42
28
547
582
journal article
9608
10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a28
c2906488-8302-4ccb-b2cf-e9fe1e782ea5
1638-9387
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5CAF9561-DB13-4E22-BB65-7B771976637C
Pyxicephalus maltzanii
(
Boulenger, 1882
)
(
Fig. 6E, F
)
COLLECTION
MATERIAL
. —
Burkina Faso
•
2 adults
;
Pabré
;
12.51000°N
, –
1.57953°W
;
290 m
a.s.l.
;
5.
V
.1970
;
M. Lamotte
leg.; MNHN-RA-1989.4058, 1989.4059
•
2 adults
;
Samba
;
2.70144°N
, –
2.40389°W
;
290 m
a.s.l.
;
M. Lamotte
leg.; MNHN-RA-1989.4062, 1989.4063
•
2 adults
;
Garango
;
11.79985°N
, –
0.55053°W
;
280 m
a.s.l.
;
18.
VI
.1962
;
M. Lamotte
leg.; MNHN-RA-1995.1901, 1995.1902
.
FIELD MATERIAL
. —
Burkina Faso
•
1 subadult
(
SVL
61.9 mm
); W
National Park
,
Nangouli
swampy valley;
11.89793°N
,
2.00091°E
;
250 m
a.s.l.
;
21.
VI
.2018
;
H. J. Ayoro
leg., under a shrub; hand capture
•
3 ♀
(
SVL
95.3-129.5 mm
);
Kabougou village
;
11.96070°N
,
1.99742°E
;
280 m
a.s.l.
;
22.
VI
.2018
; same collector as for preceding; in a paddy field; hand capture
•
7 juveniles (
SVL
29.1-38.1 mm
); the edge of
Dori
pond,
Toroodi
;
14.00554°N
, –
0.02405°W
;
280 m
a.s.l.
;
24.VIII.2018
; same collector as for preceding; under grasses near water body; hand capture
•
1 ♀
(
SVL
112.5 mm
); the edge of
N’Djomga village
pond;
14.07225°N
, –
0.04862°W
;
265 m
a.s.l.
;
25.VIII.2018
; same collector as for preceding; near water body; hand capture
.
LITERATURE REPORTS. —
Burkina Faso
•
Gourma
province,
Fada N’gourma
;
12.06051°N
,
0.34913°E
;
300 m
a.s.l. (Mohneke 2011;
Mohneke
et al.
2011
)
•
Ganzourgou
province,
Zorgho
;
12.2483°N
, –
0.6278°W
;
300 m
a.s.l.; I-III.2008 (
Mohneke
et al.
2010b
; Mohneke 2011;
Mohneke
et al.
2011
)
.
DESCRIPTION.
—
20 specimens
studied. A plump, large and compact frog with a short and wide head (
Fig. 6E, F
). Its skin faintly warty and discontinuous ridges present on back. Measures for four females
95.3-129.5 mm
SVL, thus larger than frogs from
Benin
(
Nago
et al.
2006
) (female
90 mm
and males
106-110 mm
). Tympanum moderately large. Limbs relatively short and strong. A large inner metatarsal tubercle present. In life, dorsal colour greyish to green. Dori subadults and juveniles with a greenish colour and a white mediodorsal line. In W National Park, subadults with a dominantly greyish colour with large dark grey spots on the back (
Fig. 6E, F
). Adult females with olive green or light grey dorsal colouration. Belly white and throat yellow.
REMARKS. — The taxonomy of West African
Pyxicephalus
Tschudi, 1838
needs revision (
Nago
et al.
2006
;
Böhme & Heath 2018
). The West African specimens of this genus were in the past traditionally assigned to
P. edulis
Peters, 1854
which
type
locality is in
Mozambique
. The oldest available nomen for West African specimens is
Rana maltzanii
Boulenger, 1882
, a replacement name for
Maltzania bufonia
Boettger, 1881
. At the time of
Boulenger (1882)
,
Pyxicephalus
Tschudi, 1838
was considered a subjective synonym of the genus
Rana
Linnaeus, 1758
. Thus
Boulenger (1882)
considered
Maltzania bufonia
Boettger, 1881
as a secondary homonym of
Rana bufonia
Merrem, 1820
(valid as
Elachistocleis surinamensis
(Daudin, 1802))
(see Article 59.3 of the
International Code of zoological Nomenclature
for nomina replaced before 1961 for validity), and cannot be used as valid for the West African
Pyxicephalus
. The epithet
Maltzania bufonia
, as proposed by
Böhme & Heath (2018)
, is permanently invalid and cannot be used for this taxon because the replacement name was“in use” (e. g. cited as valid by
Loveridge [1950]
and
Channing
et al.
[2012]
listed in various synonymies of
Pyxicephalus adspersus
or
Rana edulis
; but the expression “in use” is quite imprecise). If we follow this taxonomic change, the nomen
Rana maltzanii
Boulenger, 1882
should be used as the valid name for
Pyxicephalus maltzanii
(
Boulenger, 1882
)
.
Rana
(
Pyxicephalus
)
reiensis
Monard, 1951
from
Cameroon
would be available if the central African populations proove to be taxonomically distinct. Thus here, we applied the name
Pyxicephalus maltzanii
to our voucher specimens, although a formal taxonomic revision including detailed morphological and molecular data is still pending.
HABITAT. — This species was captured among grasses close to Dori and N’Djomga ponds. It was also found in Kabougou village near W National Park.
Pyxicephalus maltzanii
was recorded by gardeners in a banana plantation, vegetable gardens and paddy fields at Dédougou, Koti, Loumila and Koubri. Other authors indicate its presence in arid savannahs where it apparently prefers sand and clay substrates and it spends most of the year buried, appearing only to breed (
Perret 1966
;
Böhme 1975
). It is widely distributed in West Africa but rarely recorded; the species is almost everywhere eaten by the local population (
Rödel 2000
;
Nago
et al.
2006
;
Mohneke
et al.
2010b
;
Padial
et al.
2013
;
Böhme & Heath 2018
).