Ptychadena schillukorum
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
Ptychadena schillukorum (Werner, 1908)
(Figs 6D, 8A)
FIELD MATERIAL. — Burkina Faso • 2 ♂ (SVL 33.3-35.9 mm); Arly National Park, the floodplain; 11.57852°N, 1.46004°W; 255 m a.s.l.; 16.VI.2018; H. J. Ayoro leg.; around a small water body; hand capture.
LITERATURE REPORTS. — Burkina Faso • Gourma province, Fada N’gourma; 12.06051°N, 0.34913°E; 300 m a.s.l. (Mohneke 2011; Mohneke et al. 2011) • Ganzourgou province, Mogtedo; 12.31844°N, – 0.83601°W; 280 m a.s.l. (Mohneke 2011; Mohneke et al. 2011) • Zorgho; 12.2483°N, – 0.6278°W; 300 m a.s.l.; I-III.2008 (Mohneke 2011; Mohneke et al. 2011).
DESCRIPTION. — 2 specimens studied. Ptychadena with a compact and less slender body than P. pumilio. Limbs comparatively short; webbing formula: I 1 - 1½ II 0 - 2 III 1 - 2 ½ IV 2 ½ - 0 V. Absence of supernumerary tubercles. The back with discontinuous, partly indistinct rows of elongate warts (Fig. 6D; Fig. 8A). A discontinuous white lateral line, extending from above the tympanum to the rear back. Dorsal colour greyish with some darker spots.
COMMENTS. — Specimens identification based on the discontinuous dorsal ridges and their size (see Nago et al. 2006). However, in other parts of Africa, this name is applied to frogs which look completely different (larger and showing continuous dorsal ridges): see e.g. Channing (2001). Werner (1908) indicated in the original description a size ranging from 35-43 mm for the four females from Sudan.
HABITAT. — The two males were captured on the edge of a small water body in the floodplain from Arly National Park. Ptychadena schillukorum inhabits dry savannahs and grasslands (Nago et al. 2006; Sánchez-Vialas et al. 2017) and it breeds in swampy valleys and savannah ponds during the rainy season (Nago et al. 2009). The species, as currently defined, is found across sub-Saharan savannahs of West and East Africa (Stewart 1967; Hughes 1988; Channing 2001; Mohneke et al. 2011; Sow et al. 2017).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FIELD, MATERIAL , SVL
- Event date
- 2018-06-16
- Family
- Ptychadenidae
- Genus
- Ptychadena
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anura
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Werner
- Species
- schillukorum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-06-16
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ptychadena schillukorum (Werner, 1908) sec. Ayoro, Segniagbeto, Hema, Penner, Oueda, Dubois, Rödel, Kabré & Ohler, 2020
References
- WERNER F. 1908 (1907). - Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr. Franz Werner's nach dem agyptischen Sudan und Nord- Uganda. XII. Die Reptilien und Amphibien. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 116: 1823 - 1926.
- MOHNEKE M., ONADEKO A. B. & RODEL M. - O. 2011. - Medicinal and dietary uses of amphibians in Burkina Faso. African Journal of Herpetology 60: 78 - 83. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21 564574.2011. 564660
- NAGO A. G. S., GRELL O., SINSIN B. & RODEL M. - O. 2006. - The amphibian fauna of Pendjari National Park and surroundings, northern Benin. Salamandra 42: 93 - 108.
- CHANNING A. 2001. - Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa. Cornell University Press, New York, USA, 470 p.
- NAGO A. G. S., GRELL O., SINSIN B. & RODEL M. - O. 2009. - The tadpole of Ptychadena schillukorum (Werner, 1908 " 1907 ") (Amphibia: Anura: Ptychadenidae). Zootaxa 2115: 65 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2115.1.6
- STEWART M. M. 1967. - The amphibians of Malawi. State University Press, New York, USA, 163 p.
- HUGHES B. 1988. - Herpetology in Ghana (West Africa). British herpetological Society Bulletin 25: 29 - 38.
- SOW A. S., GONCALVES D. V., SOUSA F. V., MARTINEZ- FREIRIA F., SANTAREM F., VELO- ANTON G., DIENG H., CAMPOS J. C., DIAGNE S. K., BORATYNSKI Z. & BRITO J. C. 2017. - Atlas of the distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the Diawling National Park, Mauritania. Basic and applied Herpetology 31: 101 - 116. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11160 / bah. 87