<documentid="4C0E72CDC0A5E59D8D8E9A85026BFC1D"ID-DOI="10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a25"ID-ISSN="1638-9387"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13907152"ID-ZooBank="D4AC1F89-AC34-43C4-9761-3F2015A02265"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="jonas"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="jonas"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="jonas"IM.metadata_approvedBy="jonas"IM.tables_approvedBy="jonas"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="jonas"IM.treatments_approvedBy="jonas"checkinTime="1728463297646"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé, Ohler, Annemarie, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Luiselli, Luca & Dubois, Alain"docDate="2024"docId="03F187A4FFB3FFEBA9D0FD88FE66FC01"docLanguage="en"docName="zoosystema.2024.46.25.pdf"docOrigin="Zoosystema 46 (25)"docSource="https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2024v46a25.pdf"docStyle="DocumentStyle:5CC576F744449C1860B4E72ABD884631.9:Zoosystema.2020-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="5CC576F744449C1860B4E72ABD884631"docStyleName="Zoosystema.2020-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Arthroleptis poecilonotus Peters 1863"docType="treatment"docVersion="6"lastPageNumber="638"masterDocId="FFC8FFDCFFB4FFE2AA73FFBDFFEFFFCF"masterDocTitle="Amphibians of Togo: taxonomy, distribution and conservation status"masterLastPageNumber="670"masterPageNumber="631"pageNumber="636"updateTime="1729122366992"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC0-1.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC0-1.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:namePartid="5454C8AD4874D3819998291D5A795016">Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="45794A7F2B11BF33145742231CE9B824">Laboratory of Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lomé, BP 6057 Lomé, Togo, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) and Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, Rome (Italy)</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="91ABAF898D08FAC8BD64C69370B4E94E">Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin (Germany)</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="2F10731AA22C13B5F83146EAFEAD04B5">Laboratory of Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lomé, BP 6057 Lomé, Togo, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) & Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation, Rome (Italy)</mods:affiliation>
<mods:nameIdentifierid="EB4C4C53F9F55FF8E8349E21EDE3AF76"type="email">l.luiselli@ideccngo.org & lucamaria.luiselli@uniroma3.it</mods:nameIdentifier>
), with relatively slender body. Snout pointed. Head slightly longer than large (HW 30-38% SVL; HL 31-41% SVL). Tympanum distinct (TYD 3-7% SVL). Tibia short (TL 39-45% SVL). Webbing absent, all phalanges free. Skin essentially smooth on the back and above the head, and slightly granular on the posterior part of the back and flanks. Black dot posterior to tympanum.
. — This species exhibits a wide range of colouration patterns within all populations investigated. The most common colour variants are figured in
<bibRefCitationid="EFC94B43FFB3FFE5AE50FB0CFACEFB06"author="CHANNING A. & RODEL M. - O."box="[1059,1313,1201,1225]"pageId="7"pageNumber="636"refId="ref33292"refString="CHANNING A. & RODEL M. - O. 2019. - Field guide to the frogs and other amphibians of Africa. Struik Nature, Cape Town, 408 p."type="book"year="2019">Channing & Rödel (2019)</bibRefCitation>
. Examples are: 1) A brownish back colour with a marked whitish or yellowish vertebral line from snout to vent. A few rare black spots on dorsal sides of thighs and legs. Upper edge of loreal region, orbit and tympanic region with an irregularly shaped black band (
or dark brown colouration, with irregularly shaped darker spots along back. Flanks with irregularly shaped whitish spots. Dorsal part of legs and thighs brown with irregularly shaped and transverse spots. A yellow or whitish vertebral line present (
). 3) A distinct light vertebral line. Back with a dark band, much wider in the orbital region, and ending at vent; band starting from snout separating in two dorsolateral bands at the orbital region and ending in the inguinal region. Flanks whitish with some dark spots (
). 4) A wide yellowish or whitish band covering the entire back from snout to vent, with the vertebral line marked. This colouration also present at the heels. Flanks, dorsal part of thigh and legs black or dark brown (
<paragraphid="8BE736B2FFB3FFE5A95EF9CEFAC7F96B"blockId="7.[811,1457,1148,1701]"pageId="7"pageNumber="636">In all specimens, the throat is dark and the belly whitish. The ventral parts of the thigh and leg are whitish to transparent.</paragraph>
. — Males have a dark, almost purple single subgular vocal sac. Female oviducts are often visible, with the large yellow oocytes shining through the inguinal skin.
. — This species is more common in the forest area, although it occurs also in moist and heavily vegetated parts of all savannah ecosystems throughout the country. In the latter ecosystems, it lives in particular in gallery forest and woodlands.
is a common species in the West African gallery forests, in moist savannah and rainforest (
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needs revision including specimens over all its rather large range (
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(see above) and the more recently described, much larger,
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