Savannah Forest Tree Frog
Leptopelis bufonides
Summary 2
The savannah forest tree frog, Leptopelis bufonides, is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal; its range may extend to several other African countries, although specimens have not been confirmed elsewhere.
Distribution and habitat 3
Found on the very open, dry northern savannas. I collected my specimens on wet, partly flooded meadows where the males sat hidden in the low grass. It is a very inconspicuous frog, and the dry savanna in West Africa is pretty inaccessible in the rainy season, so the species is only known from a few scattered localities from Senegal as far east as Cameroun. Most probably widely distributed in the dry savanna in western Africa and possibly further east.
Sources and Credits
- Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bonn_zoological_bulletin_-_Leptopelis_bufonides.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptopelis_bufonides
- (c) AmphibiaWeb © 2000-2015 The Regents of the University of California, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/34269676
