<documentid="8B1CDBA1DA03F02066FD68B4046005FA"ID-DOI="10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a25"ID-ISSN="1638-9387"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13907152"ID-ZooBank="D4AC1F89-AC34-43C4-9761-3F2015A02265"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"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="03F187A4FFBEFFE9A9CFF88CFCE5FBE1"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="Sclerophrys togoensis"docType="treatment"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="640"masterDocId="FFC8FFDCFFB4FFE2AA73FFBDFFEFFFCF"masterDocTitle="Amphibians of Togo: taxonomy, distribution and conservation status"masterLastPageNumber="670"masterPageNumber="631"pageNumber="639"updateTime="1729099881718"updateUser="jonas"zenodo-license-document="CC0-1.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC0-1.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:namePartid="3A6A79B9DF2EF7518C79785E6F2FFB9C">Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoudé</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="73C08C324B0773027ABC14FE08574D31">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="3B6060E25240C916B84E5C6E19AB59C8">Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin (Germany)</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="0B948805E741C9F25D4B4E00A5A4DDAA">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="8E6705C8B118033CA04FE4FB7CFA6352"type="email">l.luiselli@ideccngo.org & lucamaria.luiselli@uniroma3.it</mods:nameIdentifier>
<bibRefCitationid="EFC94B43FFBEFFE8AEDBF88CFAF7F883"author="AHL E."box="[1192,1304,1841,1868]"pageId="10"pageNumber="639"pagination="245 - 254"refId="ref32126"refString="AHL E. 1924. - Neue Reptilien und Batrachier aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte (A) 90: 245 - 254."type="journal article"year="1924">Ahl, 1924</bibRefCitation>
<materialsCitationid="3B303CEFFFBEFFE8AE15F826FA86F802"location="Yegue in Adele"pageId="10"pageNumber="639"specimenCount="8"specimenCount-female="1"specimenCount-male="4">
<locationid="8E876069FFBEFFE8A958F80BFC2EF802"LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03F187A4FFBEFFE9A9CFF88CFCE5FBE1:8E876069FFBEFFE8A958F80BFC2EF802"box="[811,961,1973,1998]"name="Yegue in Adele"pageId="10"pageNumber="639">Yégué in Adélé</location>
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27010,
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), with somewhat stocky body. Snout rounded. Head wider than long (HW 37-39% SVL; HL 33-36% SVL). Tympanum distinct (TYD 6-7% SVL). Tibia short (TL 41-43% SVL). Webbing small, leaving about three phalanges free; webbing formula: I 1 – 2 II 1 – 3 III 2 – 3 ½ IV 3 ½ – 2 V. Skin with flat warts on the back; flanks, thighs and legs short with warts bearing horny spinules. Belly granular. Parotoid glands narrow, long, almost smooth, nearly touching the eyelids.
. — The dorsal colouration is characterised by brownish, whitish and black spots of irregular shapes. There is a transverse whitish band at the orbital level. The snout and anterior end of the head are brownish. The flanks have a brown to whitish spotted pattern. The dorsal part of forearm, arm, thigh and foot exhibit brown and whitish transverse bands.
. — The males have a subgular vocal sac indicated by a black colouration. They are often more robust and their forelegs stronger than those of females.
is based on two new vouchers collected in Diguengué. Beside the specimens used in the original description (
<bibRefCitationid="EFC94B43FFBFFFE9A8EFFC95FD15FC8F"author="AHL E."box="[668,762,808,832]"pageId="11"pageNumber="640"pagination="245 - 254"refId="ref32126"refString="AHL E. 1924. - Neue Reptilien und Batrachier aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte (A) 90: 245 - 254."type="journal article"year="1924">Ahl 1924</bibRefCitation>
), its presence has also been reported by
<bibRefCitationid="EFC94B43FFBFFFE9AB8EFCFEFD7AFC94"author="BOURGAT R."box="[509,661,835,859]"pageId="11"pageNumber="640"pagination="597 - 624"refId="ref33022"refString="BOURGAT R. 1979. - Trematodes d'amphibiens du Togo. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle (4 e serie) 3: 597 - 624."type="journal article"year="1979">Bourgat (1979)</bibRefCitation>
in Tinkoro (now Tintro in Adélé). No further mention of the species has been made in recent works on the herpetofauna of
<bibRefCitationid="EFC94B43FFBFFFE9AAA0FC2FFE7AFC65"author="RODEL M. - O. & AGYEI A. C."box="[211,405,914,938]"pageId="11"pageNumber="640"pagination="207 - 234"refId="ref37242"refString="RODEL M. - O. & AGYEI A. C. 2003. - Amphibians of the Togo- Volta highlands, eastern Ghana. Salamandra 39: 207 - 234."type="journal article"year="2003">Rödel & Agyei 2003</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFC94B43FFBFFFE9AB86FC5CFD20FC36"author="GONGOMIN B. A. - I. & KOUAME N. G. & RODEL M. - O."box="[501,719,993,1017]"pageId="11"pageNumber="640"pagination="501 - 508"refId="ref34236"refString="GONGOMIN B. A. - I., KOUAME N. G. & RODEL M. - O. 2019. - New records of the Togo Toad, Sclerophrys togoensis, from south-eastern Ivory Coast. Herpetology Notes 12: 501 - 508."type="journal article"year="2019">
