Silver Running Frog

Kassina cassinoides

Summary 1

Kassina cassinoides is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, and possibly in Benin, Chad, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.

Description 2

A large Kassina (42-46 mm) from the dry savanna of West Africa, grey with six longitudinal stripes on dorsum, the two median ones close together, often more or less confluent.

This species is easy to separate from the sympatric Kassina fusca which is smaller, brown and spotted, and K. senegalensis, smaller and without a double dorsal stripe.

Voice. - The males call from the ground in large, partly flooded meadows in the dry open savanna. They tend to vocalise from mounds covered with bushes, rather than the flat ground. The voice is a typical Kassina call, but deeper, more sonorous that that of the sympatric K. senegalensis and K. fusca.

This account was taken from "Treefrogs of Africa" by Arne Schiøtz with kind permission from Edition Chimaira publishers, Frankfurt am Main.

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