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Hemisus marmoratus
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
Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854)
Marbled Piglet Frog
Material: Two males, NGK-Nimba 0085, NGK-Nimba 0089 (Fig. 8 D).
Comments: Hemisus marmoratus is a fossorial frog, very common in the savannah ecoystems of sub-Saharan Africa (Rödel 2000; Channing and Rödel 2019). We found it in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl), among short grasses at puddles, in leaf litter under cocoa and coffee trees, and around a manual hydraulic water pump. The body size of males ranged from 29.0– 34.5 mm (N = 4), while females measured between 33.0– 50.5 mm (N = 8).
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
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Hemisotidae
- Genus
- Hemisus
- Species
- marmoratus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854) 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.