World Species : Ptychadena aequiplicata (Victoria Grassland Frog)

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Ptychadena aequiplicata (Victoria Grassland Frog)

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Synonyms: Rana aequiplicata; Rana mascareniensis aequiplicata

Wikipedia Abstract

The Victoria ridged frog (Ptychadena aequiplicata) is a species of frog in the Ptychadenidae family.It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, possibly Angola, and possibly Togo.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, intermittent freshwater marshes, and heavily degraded former forest.It is threatened by habitat loss.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 12.97

EDGE Score: 2.64

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Attributes

Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests	Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Guinean forests	Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Nigerian lowland forests	Nigeria, Benin	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo	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
Parc National de Tai National Park	II	1085310	Côte d'Ivoire
Reserve des Monts Doudou (Gamba Complex) Wildlife Management Area		656901	Gabon
Reserve Forestiere et de Faune du Dja Wildlife Reserve	IV	1551322	Cameroon

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	No

Consumers

Parasitized by
Polystoma ebriense	^[2]

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.
♦ ²Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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