Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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Animalia | Chordata | Amphibia | Anura | Phrynobatrachidae |
Scientific Name: | Phrynobatrachus tokba (Chabanaud, 1921) |
Synonym(s): |
Phrynobatrachus alticola Guibé and Lamotte, 1962
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Taxonomic Source(s): | Frost, D.R. 2013. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.6 (9 January 2013). Electronic Database. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Available at: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. |
Taxonomic Notes: | This species was known only from the type locality, but the more widespread Phrynobatrachus alticola was later determined to be a synonym (Rödel et al. 2005). The type specimen of P. alticola has been lost, hence the synonymy was difficult to confirm. |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Date Assessed: | 2013-07-11 |
Assessor(s): | IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |
Reviewer(s): | Stuart, S.N. |
Contributor(s): | Schiøtz, A. & Rödel , M.-O. |
Facilitator/Compiler(s): | Morris, E.J. |
Justification: Listed as Least Concern in view of its relatively wide distribution, tolerance of a degree of habitat modification and its presumed large population. |
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Range Description: | This species occurs in Sierra Leone, southern Guinea, Liberia, western and southwestern Côte d’Ivoire and Boi Tano Forest Reserve, Draw River Forest Reserve and Ankasa National Park (Hillers et al. 2009) in Ghana. Records from Cape Three Points Forest Reserve in southwestern Ghana require confirmation (M.O. Rödel pers. comm.). It was for a long time known only from the type locality, N'Zébéla and N'Zérékoré, in southern Guinea until the synonymy with Phrynobatrachus alticola was confirmed. It occurs up to 1,600 m asl. | ||
Countries occurrence: | Native: Côte d'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Sierra Leone | ||
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Population: | It is an extremely common species. | ||
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Habitat and Ecology: | It is a species found in leaf-litter of secondary forests with a broken canopy, tree fall gaps in primary forest, heavily degraded former forest (farm bush) and occasionally in moist savannah. It breeds by direct development. The eggs are laid on the ground, and the larvae develop with the gelatinous mass. |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Use and Trade: | There are no reports of this species being utilized. |
Major Threat(s): | Although it is somewhat adaptable, it is probably affected by agricultural expansion, logging and human settlements when these lead to serious opening up of the habitat. |
Conservation Actions: | It probably occurs in all of the forested protected areas within its range. |
Citation: | IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2013. Phrynobatrachus tokba. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T58145A18396312. . Downloaded on 19 April 2018. |
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