Ptychadena pujoli (Lamotte and Ohler, 1997)

Pujol’s Grass Frog

Material: Male, NGK-Nimba 0045 (Fig. 13G).

Comments: The biology of Ptychadena pujoli is very insufficiently known. It seems to occur in savannah swamps and grassland habitats from eastern Sierra Leone, through the Upper Guinea highlands, to western Ivory Coast (Lamotte and Ohler 1997; Channing and Rödel 2019). After a heavy rainfall, some migrating individuals were found among short grasses near houses in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). A male (48.5 mm SUL) with a brownish-grey back had a beige vertebral band. Its back was smooth to slightly granular. Flanks were light with some large warts. The animal had continuous light-colored external folds and distinguishable sacral folds. Its legs exhibited greyish dark crossbars, and its feet lacked metatarsal tubercles. The venter was yellowish. This species lived in syntopy with P. arnei in rice paddies around villages in the Daloa region (Kouamé et al., unpub. data).