The importance of frogs to the livelihood of the Bakossi people around Mount Manengouba, Cameroon, with special consideration of the Hairy Frog, Trichobatrachus robustus

Salamandra

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-34

  Gonwouo, Legrand N ^a   Rodel, Mark Oliver ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Anura; Ethno zoology; Food; Harvesting; Medicine; Mountain streams

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ASTYLOSTERNUS; CONRAUA CRASSIPES; KASSINA; TRICHOBATRACHUS ROBUSTUS; XENOPUS AMIETI;

EID: 44949158829     PISSN: 00363375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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