Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Ptychadenidae > Ptychadena > Ptychadena retropunctata

Ptychadena retropunctata (Cameroon Grassland Frog)

Synonyms: Rana retropunctata

Wikipedia Abstract

Ptychadena retropunctata is a species of frog in the Ptychadenidae family.It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and possibly Ivory Coast.Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, and intermittent freshwater marshes.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Ptychadena retropunctata

Attributes

Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.614 inches (4.1 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Guinean montane 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
East Nimba National Park II 33530 Nimba, Liberia  
Loma Mountains Non-hunting Forest Reserve No or Non - Hunting Forest Reserve II 66602 Sierra Leone  
Mont Nimba Strict Nature Reserve Ia 11675 Côte d'Ivoire  
Reserve de la Biosphere des Monts Nimba Biosphere Reserve 358797 Guinea  

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