Kassina cochranae (Loveridge, 1941)

Kanga, Kouassi Philippe, Kouamé, N’Goran Germain, Zogbassé, Parfait, Gongomin, Basseu Aude-Inès, Agoh, Konan Laurent, Kouamé, Akoua Michèle, Konan, Jean Christophe B. Y. N., Adepo-Gourène, Abouo Béatrice, Gourène, Germain & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, Amphibian diversity of a West African biodiversity hotspot: an assessment and commented checklist of the batrachofauna of the Ivorian part of the Nimba Mountains, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 275) 15 (1), pp. 71-107 : 88

Kassina cochranae (Loveridge, 1941)

Cochran’s Running Frog

Material: Four males, NGK-Nimba 0139 , NGK-Nimba 0140 , NGK-Nimba 0141 ( Fig. 11A ), NGK-Nimba 0142 .

Comments: Kassina cochranae is an arboreal forest and farmbush dweller, ranging from the rainforest edge into the moist savannah zone from western Ivory Coast to eastern Sierra Leone ( Schiøtz 1967; Rödel et al. 2002). During the rainy season, we heard a vast number of males calling concealed in dense vegetation, close to a grassy swamp (habitat C: 07°32.993’N, 008°24.753’W; 425 m asl). Four males measured 34.0‒ 36.5 mm. In the Yéalé village, a K. cochranae metamorph was found by dip-netting in a deep pond in dense farmbush vegetation. At night, adult males were heard calling at the same site between inaccessible dense vegetation, edging a swamp ( 07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl).

Figures

Fig. 11. Hyperoliid, odontobatrachid, and phrynobatrachid frogs from Mount Nimba Integrated Nature Reserve: Kassina cochranae male (A); Odontobatrachus arndti male (B); Phrynobatrachus alleni male (C); P. annulatus male (D); P. francisci female (E); P. fraterculus female (F); P. guineensis male (G); P. gutturosus female (H).