Summary ³

The rusty forest tree frog, Leptopelis viridis, is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, and possibly the Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, and Sudan. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland,...

Range description ⁴

This species ranges from Senegal and Gambia widely through the West and Central African savannah zone to northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. There do not appear to be records from Mali, Central African Republic, Chad and Sudan, but it presumably occurs in these countries. These countries are included in the representation of this species' distribution on the map.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Fundación Tierra Ibérica, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Fundación Tierra Ibérica
2. (c) marcoschmidt.frankfurt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by marcoschmidt.frankfurt, https://www.flickr.com/photos/35924619@N03/22082337922/
3. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptopelis_viridis
4. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34537717

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• AMNH Amphibian Species of the World
• AmphibiaWeb
• Animal Diversity Web
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HerpMapper
• VertNet

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