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 text Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 2021 e 275 2021-06-27 15 1 71 107 journal article 296936 10.5281/zenodo.11287122 fd72f90b-5100-43fc-9963-19f91090830b 1525-9153 11287122 Ptychadena pujoli ( Lamotte and Ohler, 1997 ) Pujol’s Grass Frog Material : Male , NGK-Nimba 0045 ( Fig. 13G ). Comments : The biology of Ptychadena pujoli is very insufficiently known. It seems to occur in savannah swamps and grassland habitats from eastern Sierra Leone , through the Upper Guinea highlands, to western Ivory Coast ( Lamotte and Ohler 1997 ; Channing and Rödel 2019 ). After a heavy rainfall, some migrating individuals were found among short grasses near houses in the Yéalé village ( 07°31.928’N , 008°25.401’W ; 425 m asl). A male ( 48.5 mm SUL) with a brownish-grey back had a beige vertebral band. Its back was smooth to slightly granular. Flanks were light with some large warts. The animal had continuous light-colored external folds and distinguishable sacral folds. Its legs exhibited greyish dark crossbars, and its feet lacked metatarsal tubercles. The venter was yellowish. This species lived in syntopy with P. arnei in rice paddies around villages in the Daloa region (Kouamé et al., unpub. data).