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An adult male (
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12555; GB:
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; field number KHA0103) collected by A.C. Agyei and R. Ernst on
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on a steep hill, SE of the base camp (at village of Mmem), in the
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Hills Forest Reserve, south western
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(
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,
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; GPS geodetic datum: WGS84; altitude ca.
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asl). The habitat consisted of dry forest with a thick leaf litter on a granitic outcrop.
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<emphasis id="B97DEA89FF89FF7CA4EDF94D336C6BC4" bold="true" box="[197,338,1690,1716]" pageId="2" pageNumber="60">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species is named after the
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locality
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Hills. The name was chosen to highlight the extraordinary importance of the location in the context of the conservation of Globally Significant Biodiversity Areas (GSBA) in the Western Region,
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. The specific epithet is treated as a noun in apposition.
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. A large
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, snout-vent length (SVL)
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; sturdy and compact, broad head;
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-like habitus (
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ac,
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); larger and more compact body shape than all other known West African
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species; well developed maxillary teeth; inner metatarsal tubercles elongated, reaching 80.9% of the length of first toe; tips of toes are slightly expanded into discs and tips of fingers are slightly swollen (
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).
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<emphasis id="B97DEA89FF88FF7DA4BFFC3A33246975" bold="true" box="[151,282,1005,1029]" pageId="3" pageNumber="61">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
Dorsal (a), ventral (b), and latero-ventral (c) view of the
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holotype (SMNS 12555). Photographs R. Ernst
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<emphasis id="B97DEA89FF88FF7DA4BFF99933276B16" bold="true" box="[151,281,1614,1638]" pageId="3" pageNumber="61">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Right hand and plantar surface of right foot of the
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holotype (SMNS 12555). Photographs R. Ernst.
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Description of the
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. A male (SMNS 12555) with SVL of
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a, c); head width
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; nares located lateral on snout, hardly visible from above and closer to tip of snout than to anterior corner of eyes; snout rounded, only slightly oval (
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, b); well developed maxillary teeth, first two teeth on either maxilla particularly prominent; mandibular teeth absent; canthus rostralis rounded but distinct; loreal region slightly concave; round tympanum comparatively large (3.0 mm), 61.2% of eye diameter (
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) but not distinct, same colour as surrounding area; upper arm length
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(28.4% of SVL), forearm length
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(26.5% of SVL); fingers without webbing; longest finger
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; relative finger length: 4&lt;1=2&lt;3; subarticular tubercles well defined, large and present on all fingers (
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); tibula-fibula (
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) 52.6% of SVL; femur (
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) 50.1% of SVL; tibiale-fibulare including longest toe
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(72.7% of SVL); terminal toe phalanges slightly expanded into discs; subarticular tubercles on toes distinct but smaller than those on fingers; single inner metatarsal tubercle (
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) slightly more than three quarters of first toe length; relative toe length: 1&lt;2&lt;5&lt;3&lt;4; foot webbing rudimental, almost absent (
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); skin on dorsum, ventrum and legs smooth, except for urostyle-cloacal region, which is porous to sulcate; gular region smooth, without folds.
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<emphasis id="B97DEA89FF8FFF7AA4BFFB4C332669C3" bold="true" box="[151,280,1179,1203]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97DEA89FF8FFF7AA537FB4B303969C3" box="[287,519,1180,1203]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">Arthroleptis krokosua</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97DEA89FF8FFF7AA625FB4C305D69C3" bold="true" box="[525,611,1179,1203]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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holotype (SMNS 12555) in life. Photographs R. Ernst
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Colour of
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in life.
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Dorsal colouration generally light brown to beige without clearly marked patterns (
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). Head from snout tip to interorbital cream white, forming a bright triangle; interorbital and occipital region slightly darker than rest of dorsum; slightly darker triangular shaped pattern in sacral region; legs with dark banding; one main band on femur, an additional band at level of femur-tibula-fibula joint; three bands on shanks; inside of entire hind extremity dark; only inside of lower arm dark; peculiar row of dark lateral blotches (
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); the anterior set each bordered by thin white line; first blotch on left side partially fused with the dark tympanal patch; the latter starts behind the eye and broadens subsequently, covering the entire tympanum and extending dorsally and posteriorly; entire patch bordered by thin white line; throat completely dark; dark pigmentation continues across chest and fades caudally; irregular white spots distributed across venter, starting at level of chest (
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); femur irregularly marbled; distinct dark labial bars underneath eye and naris.
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Colour of
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in preservative.
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Nearly no colour difference between life and preserved specimen. Colour in ethanol only more faded.
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<emphasis id="B97DEA89FF8FFF7AA4EDF8C133C36A40" bold="true" box="[197,509,1814,1840]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">Distribution and habitat.</emphasis>
The species is so far only known from the
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locality at
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Hills Forest Reserve. There it was found to be associated with uphill moist semi-deciduous forest. The microhabitat in which it was encountered was characterized by a comparatively thick and dense leaf litter. We recorded no open bodies of water, neither lentic nor lotic, in direct vicinity of the
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locality.
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