Phrynobatrachus gutturosus Guttural Puddle Frog
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
Phrynobatrachus gutturosus (Chabanaud, 1921)
Guttural Puddle Frog
Material: Two females, NGK-Nimba 0095 (Fig. 11H), NGK-Nimba 0096, and two males, NGK-Nimba 0097, NGK-Nimba 0098.
Comments: A complex of cryptic West African puddle frogs is currently known under the name Phrynobatrachus gutturosus (Rödel 2000; Zimkus et al. 2010). One species of that complex, P. afiabirago, has been recently described from southern Ghana (Ofori-Boateng et al. 2018). Frogs from this complex became known from primary rainforest to dry savannah habitats (Rödel 2000; Rödel and Spieler 2000; Ernst and Rödel 2006; Nago et al. 2006; Hillers et al. 2008c), and their taxonomic status requires further research. We found P. gutturosus among leaf litter in a cocoa and coffee plantation (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). The plantation comprised a large pond and was used by people from the Yéalé village to grow rice. Numerous individuals of P. gutturosus were seen after sunset (1830 h GMT). Two females measured 18.5 and 20.0 mm.
Notes
Files
Files
(1.5 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:07bfce3cd9be0d0d5ee7eaae87705034
|
1.5 kB | Download |
System files
(14.9 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:c0f28bd9b6914018a41a61ac0b09f918
|
14.9 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Phrynobatrachidae
- Genus
- Phrynobatrachus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- NGK-Nimba 0095, NGK-Nimba 0096 , NGK-Nimba 0097, NGK-Nimba 0098
- Order
- Anura
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Guttural Puddle Frog
- Species
- gutturosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phrynobatrachus gutturosus (Chabanaud, 1921) sec. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbassé, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène & Rödel, 2021
References
- Chabanaud P. 1921. Contribution a l'etude de la faune herpetologique de l'Afrique Occidentale. Bulletin de Comite d'etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidental Francaise 1921: 445 - 472.
- Zimkus BM, Rodel MO, Hillers A. 2010. Complex patterns of continental speciation: molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of sub-Saharan puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 883 - 900.
- Ofori-Boateng C, Leache AD, Obeng-Kankam B, Kouame NG, Hillers A, Rodel MO. 2018. A new species of puddle frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana. Zootaxa 4374: 565 - 578.
- Rodel MO, Spieler M. 2000. Trilingual keys to the savannah-anurans of the Comoe National Park, Ivory Coast. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde Serie A 620: 1 - 31.
- Ernst R, Rodel MO. 2006. Community assembly and structure of tropical leaf-litter anurans. Ecotropica 12: 113 - 129.
- Nago SGA, Grell O, Sinsin B, Rodel MO. 2006. The amphibian fauna of the Pendjari National Park and surroundings, northern Benin. Salamandra 42: 93 - 108.
- Hillers A, Veith M, Rodel MO. 2008 c. Effects of forest fragmentation and habitat degradation on WestAfrican leaf litter frogs. Conservation Biology 22: 762 - 772.