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Hoplobatrachus occipitalis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Tropicale (BioEcoTrop), Daloa, BP 150, COTE D'IVOIRE
- 2. Université Nangui Abrogoua, Pôle de Recherche Pêche et Aquaculture, UFR-SGE, 02 BP 801, Abidjan 02, COTE D'IVOIRE
- 3. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, GERMANY
Description
Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Günther, 1858)
African Tiger Frog
Material: Female, NGK-Nimba 0005 (Fig. 8C).
Comments: Hoplobatrachus occipitalis is a large aquatic frog that is widely distributed in savannahs and disturbed forests across tropical Africa (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 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).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 71-107 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) (e 275) 15 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Material sample ID
- NGK-Nimba 0005
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Dicroglossidae
- Genus
- Hoplobatrachus
- Species
- occipitalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Gunther, 1858) sec. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbassé, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène & Rödel, 2021
References
- Channing A, Rodel MO. 2019. Field Guide to the Frogs and other Amphibians of Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, South Africa. 407 p.