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Afrixalus dorsalis

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

Afrixalus dorsalis (Peters, 1875)

Striped Spiny Reed Frog

Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0051 (Fig. 8E).

Comments: Afrixalus dorsalis is a nocturnal leaf-folding frog, which inhabits a wide range of western African habitats, such as savannah, farmbush, and swampy areas at forest edges (Schiøtz 1967; Rödel 2000; Channing and Rödel 2019). We heard many calling males in rice paddies and in grassy vegetation of swamps, in Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). A male measured 22.0 mm SUL.

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

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EEFC14FFB2FFCCFF7C821FA5F17FBD

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.11287140 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD7846CFFBFFFC1FFF18752A468791B (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03EEFC14FFB2FFCCFF7C821FA5F17FBD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/230993497 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/296936/taxon/03EEFC14FFB2FFCCFF7C821FA5F17FBD.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Hyperoliidae
Genus
Afrixalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
NGK-Nimba 0051
Order
Anura
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Species
dorsalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Afrixalus dorsalis (Peters, 1875) sec. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbassé, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène & Rödel, 2021

References

  • Schiotz A. 1967. The treefrogs (Rhacophoridae) of West Africa. Spolia Zoologica Musei Haunienses 25: 1 - 346.
  • Channing A, Rodel MO. 2019. Field Guide to the Frogs and other Amphibians of Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, South Africa. 407 p.