Diversity of Amphibians in the Tshopo and Bas-Uélé provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

https://ipt-rdc.bebif.be/resource?r=amphibians2 Diversity of Amphibians in the Tshopo and Bas-Uélé provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Franck MASUDI MUENYE MALI Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité (CSB) research assistant

fr.masudi@gmail.com André Heughebaert Belgian Biodiversity Platform Node Manager

30 Simon Bolivar Bld Brussels BE

a.heughebaert@biodiversity.be 0000-0002-7839-5300 André Heughebaert a.heughebaert@biodiversity.be user 2020-03-24 eng Amphibians from the Tshopo province and the province of Bas-Uélé were the subject of our study. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the species richness of amphibians in these unexplored entities. As a reminder, amphibians in the DRC are not sufficiently studied due to a lack of expertise. However, some studies are being conducted mainly in protected areas. These data have been made possible thanks to BID-GBIF funding, financed by the European Union. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. Democratic Republic of Congo, Tshopo and Bas-Uélé provinces 23.919 25.969 3.483 0.128 2013 2019 order Anura unkown Franck MASUDI MUENYE MALI Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité (CSB) research assistant

fr.masudi@gmail.com Corneille Ewango Ekokinya Université de Kinsangani

corneilleewango@gmail.com Amphibians were captured by hand between 6.30 p.m. and 9pm using flashlight light. Between 2014 and 2019, we inventorized for 10 days in each of the following sites: Aketi, Kayete, Uma, Masako Forest Reserve, Yangambi Biosphere Reserve, Rubi-Télé hunting estate and in the Yoko Reserve. The tongue of amphibians contained the biopsy and was contained in the Eppendorf tube containing alcohol (96%) for subsequent molecular studies. We had assembled all the amphibians in a rectangular plastic box containing formalin (10%). They remained in place for 24 hours then they were transferred into alcohol (75%) for permanent preservation. We identified the amphibians using the determination key from Frétey (2012), Alan Channing (2001). The geographic coordinates were taken by GPS (Garmin 64s). We had photographed all the amphibian specimens and the capture sites. Amphibian conservation in DR Congo through biodiversity capacity building and data mobilization Franck MASUDI MUENYE MALI contentProvider Corneille Ewango Ekokinya principalInvestigator 2020-03-24T09:21:03.012+01:00 dataset Masudi Muenye Mali, F.; Ewango E.K. Corneille; Gembu Tungaluna, G.C.; Eli Greenbaum; Badjedjea Babangenge, G.; Akuboy Dauly, J.; Chifundera Kusamba, Z.; Mwenebantu Mlungu, A.; Dudu Akaibe, B. (2020). Diversity of Amphibians in the Tshopo and Bas-Uélé provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) https://ipt-rdc.bebif.be/resource?id=amphibians2/v1.1.xml