Xenopus tropicalis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratoire de Biologie et Ecologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) halamoussa. joelle @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
- 2. Laboratoire d'Écologie et d'Écotoxicologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) gsegniagbeto @ gmail. com
- 3. Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) hema. emmanuel @ yahoo. fr
- 4. Chair of Wildlife Ecology & Management, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Strasse 4, 79106 Freiburg (Germany) johannes. penner @ wildlife. uni-freiburg. de
- 5. Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) oueda 14 @ yahoo. fr
- 6. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 30, F- 75005, Paris (France) alain. dubois @ mnhn. fr
- 7. Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin (Germany )) Mark-Oliver. Roedel @ mfn. berlin
- 8. Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie Animales, UFR / SVT, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 3 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 3 (Burkina Faso) gkabre 2 @ gmail. com
- 9. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 30, F- 75005, Paris (France) annemarie. ohler @ mnhn. fr
Description
Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864)
COLLECTION MATERIAL. — Burkina Faso • 7 ♀ (SVL 34.5-55 mm), 9 subadults (SVL 23.2-32.9 mm); Houet province, Bobo-Dioulasso; 11.14979°N, – 4.22272°W; 280 m a.s.l.; II.1983; NA leg.; ZFMK 38659-65, 38688-96.
FIELD MATERIAL. — Burkina Faso • 1 ♂; Arly National Park, the floodplain; 11.57852°N, 1.46004°E; 255 m a.s.l.; 16. VI.2018; H.J. Ayoro leg.; in water body; acoustic report • 1♀ (SVL 41.2 mm); Kou Forest; 11.18885°N, – 4.43938°W; 320 m a.s.l.; 8.VIII.2018; H. J. Ayoro & A. Ohler leg.; in the water of a concrete basin; hand capture • Dano, Dano dam; 11.16462°N, – 3.08633°W; 340 m a.s.l.; 2011; J. Penner leg.; field direct observation.
LITERATURE REPORTS. — Burkina Faso • Houet province, Bobo-Dioulasso; 11.18800°N, – 4.29744°W; 420 m a.s.l.; 1983 (Böhme et al. 1996) • Comoé province, 4 km north-east of Dérégoué; 10.75013°N, – 4.07932°W; 320 m a.s.l.; 1985 (Böhme & Heath 2018).
DESCRIPTION. — 17 specimens studied. A rare species in our studies sites. This typical pipid shaped frog distinguished from Xenopus fischbergi by the inner metatarsal tubercles covered by a dark keratinized tip forming a fourth claw.
HABITAT. — Our single collected X. tropicalis was captured in the water of a concrete basin beside a bridge at Kou River. It was within the gallery forest of this river. In Arly National Park, a male was calling under flooded trees near the Arly River. The species is widespread in rainforests in West Africa. It ranges further north along gallery forests. Its presence was reported from many western African countries, ranging from Senegal to Cameroon (Rödel 2000; Segniagbeto et al. 2007; Onadeko & Rödel 2009; Kouamé et al. 2014; Kpan et al. 2014; Evans et al. 2015; Onadeko 2016; Rödel & Glos 2019).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FIELD, MATERIAL , MATERIAL , SVL , VI
- Material sample ID
- ZFMK 38659-65, 38688-96
- Event date
- 2018-06-16 , 2018-08-08
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-06-16 , 2018-08-08
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Pipidae
- Genus
- Xenopus
- Species
- tropicalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864) sec. Ayoro, Segniagbeto, Hema, Penner, Oueda, Dubois, Rödel, Kabré & Ohler, 2020
References
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- BOHME W. & HEATH J. 2018. - Amphibian and reptilian records from south-central Mali and western Burkina Faso. Bonn zoological Bulletin 67: 59 - 69.
- RODEL M. - O. 2000. - Herpetofauna of West Africa: Amphibians of the West African savannah. Edition Chimaira. Vol. 1. Germany, Frankfurt am Main, 300 p.
- SEGNIAGBETO G. H., BWOSSIDJAOU J. E., DUBOIS A. & OHLER A. 2007. - Les amphibiens du Togo: etat actuel de connaissance. Alytes 24: 72 - 90.
- ONADEKO B. A. & RODEL M. - O. 2009. - Anuran surveys in south-western Nigeria. Salamandra 45: 1 - 14.
- KOUAME N. G., KONAN J. C. B. Y. N., ADEPO- GOURENE A. B., GOURENE G. & RODEL M. - O. 2014. - The amphibians of the
- KPAN T. F., ADEBA P. J., KOUAME N. G., KONE I., KOUASSI P. K. & RODEL M. - O. 2014. - The anuran fauna of a volunteer nature reserve: the Tanoe-Ehy swamp forests, south-eastern Ivory Coast, West Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90: 261 - 270. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zse. 90.8796
- EVANS B. J., CARTER T. F., GREENBAUM E., GVOZDIK V., KELLEY D. B., MCLAUGHLIN P. J., PAUWELS O. S. G., PORTIK D. M., STANLEY E. L., TINSLEY R. C., TOBIAS M. L. & BLACKBURN D. C. 2015. - Genetics, morphology, advertisement calls, and historical records distinguish six new polyploid species of African clawed frog (Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa. PLoS ONE 10: e 0142823. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0142823
- ONADEKO B. A. 2016. - Distribution, diversity and abundance of anuran species in three different vegetations habitats in southwestern Nigeria. Ethiopian Journal of environmental Studies and Management 9: 22 - 34. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4314 / ejesm. v 9 i 1.3
- RODEL M. - O. & GLOS J. 2019. - Herpetological surveys in two proposed protected areas in Liberia, West Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95: 15 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zse. 95.31726