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
Author
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
fd72f90b-5100-43fc-9963-19f91090830b
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11287122
Arthroleptis poecilonotus
-complex
Mottled Squeaker
Material
:
Two males
,
NGK-Nimba 0021
(
Fig. 6B
),
NGK-Nimba 0022
.
Comments
: These squeaker frogs were widespread in the forest area as well as in farmlands within the vegetation, where several concealed males emitted their insect-like chirping calls which cannot be assigned to any morphotaxa. They occured from
425 to 847 m
asl. A male of 23.0 mm in
SUL
was captured in a patch of forest and retained as voucher (
07°35.233’N
,
008°25.190’W
;
847 m
asl). Another male voucher (
SUL
24.0 mm) was recorded in an agricultural area (
07°31.928’N
,
008°25.401’W
;
425 m
asl).
Arthroleptis poecilonotus
-complex are larger than
A. langeri
but smaller than
A. krokosua
.
The two vouchers may comprise different species, of which one could be conspecific with
A. nimbaensis
. However, currently that cannot be clarified (see Rödel and Bangoura 2004;
Channing and Rödel 2019
). All of these
Arthroleptis
species
, apart from
A. crusculum
, may have similar habitat requirements (Rödel et al. 2009;
Adum et al. 2011
;
Nopper et al. 2012
;
Sandberger-Loua et al. 2018a
).