Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains
Author
Kanga, Kouassi Philippe
Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Tropicale (BioEcoTrop), Daloa, BP 150, COTE D’IVOIRE
Author
Kouamé, N’Goran Germain
Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Tropicale (BioEcoTrop), Daloa, BP 150, COTE D’IVOIRE
ngoran_kouame@yahoo.fr
Author
Zogbassé, Parfait
Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Tropicale (BioEcoTrop), Daloa, BP 150, COTE D’IVOIRE
Author
Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès
Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Tropicale (BioEcoTrop), Daloa, BP 150, COTE D’IVOIRE
Author
Agoh, Konan Laurent
Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Tropicale (BioEcoTrop), Daloa, BP 150, COTE D’IVOIRE
Author
Kouamé, Akoua Michèle
Université Nangui Abrogoua, Pôle de Recherche Pêche et Aquaculture, UFR-SGE, 02 BP 801, Abidjan 02, COTE D’IVOIRE
Author
Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N.
Université Nangui Abrogoua, Pôle de Recherche Pêche et Aquaculture, UFR-SGE, 02 BP 801, Abidjan 02, COTE D’IVOIRE
Author
Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice
Université Nangui Abrogoua, Pôle de Recherche Pêche et Aquaculture, UFR-SGE, 02 BP 801, Abidjan 02, COTE D’IVOIRE
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Gourène, Germain
Université Nangui Abrogoua, Pôle de Recherche Pêche et Aquaculture, UFR-SGE, 02 BP 801, Abidjan 02, COTE D’IVOIRE
Author
Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, GERMANY
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Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
2021
e 275
2021-06-27
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.11287122
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11287122
Arthroleptis crusculum
Angel, 1950
Evening Squeaker
Material:
Two males
,
NGK-Nimba 0019
,
NGK-Nimba 0130
(
Fig. 6A
).
Comments:
On a rainy day they were found together with a juvenile
Nimba
Toad (
N. occidentlais
) below a stone in montane grassland (
07°35.555’N
,
008°25.788’W
;
1,235 m
asl). These males had an oval to slender elongated body and measured 15.5 and 21.0 mm
SUL
, respectively.
Arthroleptis crusculum
always possesses a granular to warty dorsal skin. Its habitat differs from other species of the genus which are present on Mounts
Nimba
.
Arthrolpetis nimbaensis
,
A. langeri
,
and
A. krokosua
, and occur in rainforest and/or farmbush (
Guibé and Lamotte 1958b
; Rödel et al. 2009;
Adum et al. 2011
;
Nopper et al. 2012
;
Sandberger-Loua et al. 2018a
).
Arthrolpetis crusculum
occurs in high elevation grasslands up to
1,750 m
asl during the rainy season and seems to survive the dry season in gallery forests and at the edges of marshes (
Guibé and Lamotte 1958b
).