An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys
Author
Kirchhof, Sebastian
Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES & Museum fUr Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, GERMANY 3 Herpetology Section, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 40658 - 00100, Nairobi, KENYA
Author
Wasonga, Victor
Author
Mazuch, Tomáš
Author
Spawls, Stephen
Author
Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta
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Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
2023
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2023-06-01
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10.5281/zenodo.12761910
cda73657-e098-4f17-922e-91d2c5b45fca
1525-9153
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Poyntonophrynus lughensis
(Loveridge, 1932)
Vouchers: NMK-A1824 (field no. SK1112) Localities in the study area (henceforth simply called localities):
Turkana
Basin Institute (
TBI
)
Remarks: On
28 March 2017
, tens to hundreds of individuals were calling in the late morning (0900– 1100 h) together with
Tomopterna wambensis
in a temporary water body created by recent rainfalls in the usually dry bushland in front of the TBI near Illeret. Several pairs of
Poyntonophrynus lughensis
were found in amplexus.
One female
was collected and accessioned in the
NMK
collection (
Fig. 3A
). Similar to other members of the African pygmy toads of this genus, the natural history of
P. lughensis
is almost completely unknown (
Ceríaco et al. 2018
). Interestingly, in a recent large-scale molecular phylogeny of African toads,
P. lughensis
actually clustered with the species of the genus
Mertensophryne
Tihen, 1960
(
Liedtke et al. 2017
).