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Leptopelis occidentalis (Tai Forest Treefrog)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Tai forest tree frog, Leptopelis occidentalis, is a species of frog in the Arthroleptidae family found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, and possibly Nigeria.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, and intermittent freshwater marshes.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Leptopelis occidentalis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.01
EDGE Score: 3.47
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Attributes

Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.795 inches (7.1 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Guinean forests Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Guinean lowland forests Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parc National de Tai National Park II 1085310 Côte d'Ivoire  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Guinean Forests of West Africa Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0