''Leptopelis parvus'', also known as the Kanole forest treefrog, is a species of frog in the family

Arthroleptidae The Arthroleptidae are a family of frogs found in sub-Saharan Africa. This group includes African treefrogs in the genus ''Leptopelis'' along with the terrestrial breeding squeakers '' Arthroleptis'', and several genera restricted to the Guinea ...

. It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is only known from the Upemba National Park (

Katanga Province Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika Province, Tanganyika, Hau ...

, southern DRC).

Description

Adult males measure and adult females in snout–vent length. The overall appearance is stocky. The snout is obtuse. The tympanum is distinct. The fingers have no webbing whereas the toes have reduced webbing. The finger discs are distinct but small. Alcohol-preserved specimens are dorsally uniformly brown, without white line above the anus or along outer edges of the limbs. Males have a paired subgular vocal sac.

Habitat and conservation

''Leptopelis parvus'' is known from elevations between

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

and is probably associated with savanna woodlands. If similar to other ''Leptopelis'', the eggs are laid in a nest buried in mud near water, into which the larvae emerge and develop. There is no information on threats to this poorly known species. It occurs in an area of low human impact and is unlikely to be threatened. It occurs within the Upemba National Park, a protected area.

References

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parvus Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand (8 September 1867 – 12 December 1924) and sometimes called Helphand in the literature on the Russian Revolution, was a Marxist theoretician, publicist, and controversial activist in the ...

Frogs of Africa Amphibians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Taxa named by Robert F. Inger Taxa named by Karl Patterson Schmidt Amphibians described in 1959 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot