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Ptychadena retropunctata

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 retropunctata (Angel, 1949)

Nimba Grass Frog

Material: Two males, NGK-Nimba 0060, NGK-Nimba 0061, and two females, NGK-Nimba 0062, NGK-Nimba 0063 (Fig. 14A).

Comments: Five P. retropunctata were recorded on a high plateau with predominantly grassy mountain pastures and herbaceous vegetation (07°35.453’N, 008°24.957’W; 843 m asl). The SULs of males varied from 28.0– 30.5 mm (N = 3), while two females measured 29.0 and 37.5 mm. Whereas four frogs were rust-colored, a female had a deep brown dorsum. In contrast to Rödel (2000) and Channing and Rödel (2019), who describe a white venter, our specimens had a yellow venter. The species was described previously from Mounts Nimba (Angel 1949). Further records became known only from a few montane localities in southeastern Guinea (summarized in Rödel et al. 2004), the Loma Mountains in Sierra Leone (Lamotte 1971), northern Guinea (Hillers et al. 2006), and southeastern Senegal (Monasterio et al. 2016). This is the first country record for P. retropunctata in Ivory Coast.

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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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EEFC14FFA8FFD6FF7C807FA0B17BBD

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.11287160 (DOI)
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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/03EEFC14FFA8FFD6FF7C807FA0B17BBD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/230993539 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/296936/taxon/03EEFC14FFA8FFD6FF7C807FA0B17BBD.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Material sample ID
NGK-Nimba 0060, NGK-Nimba 0061 , NGK-Nimba 0062, NGK-Nimba 0063
Scientific name authorship
Angel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Ptychadenidae
Genus
Ptychadena
Species
retropunctata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ptychadena retropunctata (Angel, 1949) sec. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbassé, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène & Rödel, 2021

References

  • Angel F. 1949. Une grenouille nouvelle, Rana (Ptychadena) retropunctata, du Mt. Nimba (Materiaux de la Mission M. Lamotte en Haute Guinee Francaise). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 21: 509 - 511.
  • Channing A, Rodel MO. 2019. Field Guide to the Frogs and other Amphibians of Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, South Africa. 407 p.
  • Lamotte M. 1971. Le Massif des Monts Loma (Sierra Leone), Fascicule I; XIX. Amphibiens. Memoires de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Serie A 86: 397 - 407.
  • Hillers A, Bangoura MA, Loua NS, Rodel MO. 2006. A rapid survey of amphibians and reptiles in the Boke region, northwestern Guinea. Pp. 131 - 136 In: A Rapid Biological Assessment of Boke Prefecture, northwestern Guinea. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 41. Editors, Wright HE, McCullough J, Diallo MS. Conservation International, Washington, DC, USA. 190 p.
  • Monasterio C, Alvarez P, Trape JF, Rodel MO. 2016. The herpetofauna of the Dindefelo Natural Community Reserve, Senegal. Herpetology Notes 9: 1 - 6.