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Published June 27, 2021 | Version v1
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Ptychadena oxyrhynchus

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

Ptychadena oxyrhynchus (Smith, 1849)

Sharp-nosed Grass Frog

Material: Two females, NGK-Nimba 0040, NGK-Nimba 0041, and one male, NGK-Nimba 0042 (Fig. 13 F).

Comments: Ptychadena oxyrhynchus is a large frog with extremely robust and long hind legs. It occurs in savannahs and edges of the forest zone across sub-Saharan Africa (Rödel 2000; Channing and Rödel 2019). During the rainy season, the species was found in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl), along dirt roads with temporary water bodies of different sizes. The species survives the dry season in humid parts of rice paddies. In this season, rice is harvested and we saw the frogs in vast numbers. The sizes of two females were 59.0 and 64.8 mm, while a male measured 52.0 mm.

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 94, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EEFC14FFA8FFD6FF7C87BFA6827BDE

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.11287156 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11287122 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD7846CFFBFFFC1FFF18752A468791B (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03EEFC14FFA8FFD6FF7C87BFA6827BDE (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/230993536 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/296936/taxon/03EEFC14FFA8FFD6FF7C87BFA6827BDE.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Ptychadenidae
Genus
Ptychadena
Species
oxyrhynchus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ptychadena oxyrhynchus (Smith, 1849) 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.