Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854)

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 : 84

Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854)

Marbled Piglet Frog

Material: Two males, NGK-Nimba 0085, NGK-Nimba 0089 ( Fig. 8 D ).

Comments : Hemisus marmoratus is a fossorial frog, very common in the savannah ecoystems of sub-Saharan Africa (Rödel 2000; Channing and Rödel 2019). We found it in the Yéalé village (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl), among short grasses at puddles, in leaf litter under cocoa and coffee trees, and around a manual hydraulic water pump. The body size of males ranged from 29.0– 34.5 mm (N = 4), while females measured between 33.0– 50.5 mm (N = 8).

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Fig. 8. Conrauid, dicroglossid, hemisotid, and hyperoliids from Mount Nimba Integrated Nature Reserve: Conraua alleni (A–B); Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (C); Hemisus marmoratus (D); Afrixalus dorsalis (E); A. fulvovittatus (F); Hyperolius chlorosteus (G–H).