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Phrynobatrachus latifrons Ahl 1924

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

Phrynobatrachus latifrons Ahl, 1924

Savannah Puddle Frog

Material: One female, NGK-Nimba 0064 (Fig. 12A), and one male, NGK-Nimba 0065 (Fig. 12B).

Comments: Phrynobatrachus latifrons is a very common and widespread, semi-aquatic West African puddle frog, living in savannah and heavily degraded rainforest habitats (Rödel 1995 [there erroneously termed P. francisci], 2000; Kouamé et al. 2018). The species was abundant in the Yéalé village. In particular, we heard males calling between densely vegetated parts of swamps and paddy fields (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). An adult female with a broad green back and a light vertebral line exhibited an unusual thin, light longitudinal line on upper surface of the tibia (22.0 mm). A uniform brown frog (18.1 mm) exhibited the bright yellow throat, typical for adult males.

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 90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EEFC14FFACFFD2FCE6869FA0657AFD

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.11287154 (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/03EEFC14FFACFFD2FCE6869FA0657AFD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/230993523 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/296936/taxon/03EEFC14FFACFFD2FCE6869FA0657AFD.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Material sample ID
NGK-Nimba 0064 , NGK-Nimba 0065
Scientific name authorship
Ahl
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Phrynobatrachidae
Genus
Phrynobatrachus
Species
latifrons
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phrynobatrachus latifrons Ahl, 1924 sec. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbassé, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène & Rödel, 2021

References

  • Rodel MO. 1995. Phrynobatrachus francisci im Comoe- Nationalpark, Elfenbeinkuste: Lebensraume, Aktivitat und Nahrung in der ausgehenden Trockenzeit. Salamandra 31: 79 - 92.
  • Kouame NG, Tohe B, Assemian NE, Gourene G, Rodel MO. 2018. Spatio-temporal distribution of five species of West African leaf-litter frogs. Salamandra 54: 21 - 29.