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<mods:titleid="4BB1C8C90A6CF18528FCC09660A43369">Amphibians of Kokolopori: an introduction to the amphibian fauna of the Central Congolian Lowland Forests, Democratic Republic of the Congo</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="4B23EE1E5765DA6688229CF6F3D1D49C">Department of Aquatic Ecology, Biodiversity Monitoring Center, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="7D8D5D946407A6B3AF4FA38C39E74580">Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Biodiversity Monitoring Center, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="9247201705085631661FBA0D489BC6FB">Akaibe, Benjamin Dudu</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="4382121ADEB5C36F08BB0ECA7EE4CEBE">Faculty of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="FC33F7FAF126BF0CA6D2AEDDEAA5E73F">Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC & National Museum, Department of Zoology, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC</mods:affiliation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFB04B4BFFD0D40678D9FCB9FEAAFC0F"author="Laurent RF"box="[148,319,878,902]"pageId="17"pageNumber="52"pagination="1 - 67"refId="ref25453"refString="Laurent RF. 1976 b. Les genres Cryptothylax, Phlyctimantis, et Kassina au Zaire. Annales du Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Tervuren, Belgique. Serie in- 8 º, Sciences Zoologique 213: 1 - 67."type="journal article"year="1976">Laurent 1976b</bibRefCitation>
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. This species occurs in open areas along streams or near swamps with rich high herbaceous vegetation.
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only rarely enters the margins of forests. This sexually dichromatic species has yellowish to brown males and whitish to pinkish females with orange discs on the toes, which is a state of color dichromatism similar to that of the genus
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. Metamorphs of this species are relatively large and quite tuberculous with beige to pinkish lateral stripes and a brown dorsum, a pattern sometimes visible in adult males but less conspicuous. We encountered this species only relatively rarely, which is probably due to the presence of predominantly forested habitats in Kokolopori.
