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
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1525-9153
11287122
Hyperolius soror
(
Chabanaud, 1921
)
Soror Reed Frog
Material
:
One female
,
NGK-Nimba 0125
(
Fig. 10C
),
two males
,
NGK-Nimba 0126
(
Fig. 10D
),
NGK-Nimba 0127
.
Comments
: We heard over a dozen
H. soror
males calling during the rainy season in a dense grassy swamp, edging forest (
07°32.993’N
,
008°24.753’W
;
425 m
asl).
Fig. 10.
Hyperoliid frogs from Mount Nimba Integrated Nature Reserve:
Hyperolius picturatus
female
(A)
;
H. picturatus
male
(B)
;
H. soror
female
(C)
;
H. soror
male
(D)
;
H.
cf.
sylvaticus
male
(E)
;
H.
cf.
sylvaticus
male in ventral view
(F)
;
H.
sp. male (NGK-Nimba 0068)
(G)
;
H.
sp. male (NGK-Nimba 0068) in ventral view
(H)
.
However, only
one female
and
two males
were caught there.
The
species is sexually dimorphic.
The
female (
25.1 mm
SUL
) had a light green back, with diffuse, minute, reddish-brown spots, red lateral markings, a red stripe from snout to tip of eye, bluish-grey iris, and toes and fingers, including webbing, were faintly red with green tips.
Its
ventral surface was transparent bluish green.
In
contrast, both males (
SUL
19.1 and
21.1 mm
) had a golden iris, a dark red canthal stripe, green dorsum with diffuse, minute, reddish-brown spots, light dorsolateral stripes, and green toes and fingers.