Kassina kuvangensis (Monard, 1937)
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Habitat and Ecology
Systems
- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
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Red List Criteria
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History
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2004Least Concern (LC)
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Population
Population Trend
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Development. - Females lay up to 130 eggs in a sticky clump. They are greenish with a dark pole. The tadpole is large, up to 102 mm with a very high fin. Tooth formula 1/1+1,1. Tadpoles are bright yellow with darker mottling.
- Schiøtz, A. (1999). Treefrogs of Africa. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.
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Major Threats
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Conservation Actions
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Kassina kuvangensis is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Angola, Zambia, and possibly the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
References
- Schiøtz, A. & Channing, A. 2004. Kassina kuvangensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.
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A large (Males 41-51 mm) savanna-living Kassina from Zambia and Angola. Dorsum dark with indistinct darker spots, or uniformly dark. Ventrum light, sometimes with indications of dark reticulation. Hidden parts of legs marbled in red and grey. Gular disc round rather than strap-like. Tips of toes and finger not dilated. Inner metatarsal tubercle large, equal to internarial distance.In northern Zambia, within the range of K. kuvangensis, the local populations of K. senegalensis are also large and spotted. It would be desirable to have field studies of the mechanisms which separate the two species. Morphological distinguishing characters seem to be that the width of the inner metatarsal tubercle is markedly greater than the width of the subarticular tubercle of the first toe in K. kuvangensis, and that it lacks a distinct outer metatarsal tubercle, while in K. senegalensis the inner metatarsal tubercle is smaller than the subarticular tubercle of the first toe, and there is a distinct outer metatarsal tubercle. K. kuvangensis and K. senegalensis have not been observed on the same locality.
Voice. - The males call in great numbers from flat open grasslands covered with a few cm of water. The call is a very fast, somewhat irregular series of rather unmelodic quoicks. The single figures have a structure similar to that of other members of the genus.
This account was taken from "Treefrogs of Africa" by Arne Schiøtz with kind permission from Edition Chimaira publishers, Frankfurt am Main.
- Schiøtz, A. (1999). Treefrogs of Africa. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.
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This species ranges from central Angola to western and northern Zambia. It presumably occurs in Shaba Province in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, and this area is included in the species' distribution on the map, however it has not yet been confirmed from this country.
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Known from northern and western Zambia and southern Angola.
- Schiøtz, A. (1999). Treefrogs of Africa. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.
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