Climatic Correlates of Breeding, Simultaneous Polyandry and Potential for Sperm Competition in the Frog Crinia georgiana

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Specimens Examined-Phrynobatrachus alticola from Tai National Park, Ivory Coast; specimens from the middle of the park near the town of Tai: SMNS 9729 1-4, 3 males, 1 female, transects IV, V & VIII, 16.III. and 6.IV.2000; SMNS 9730 1-3, males, SRET station, IV.1999; SMNS 9731 1-2, females, transect IX, VI.2000; SMNS 9733 1-19, larvae and juveniles, IX.2000; specimen from the South of the park near the village of Guiroutou: SMNS 9732, adult female, secondary forest, 1993. Adult and juvenile P alticola from Liberian and Guinean part of Mont Nimba: MNHN 1998 1547-48, Bord de Cavally. gal. forestiere, Mt. Nimba, Guin6e, 2.1.84; MNHN 1998.2695-96, entre grassfield et New Camp ruiseau en foret, Nimba Expedition, Liberia, 27.IX.66; MNHN 1998.2655, same locality, 20.V.1969; MNHN 1998.1524, 1998.1522, 1998.1527, same locality, 18.VIII.1966; MNHN 1998.2676, same locality, 27.X.1966; MNHN 1998.1533, old Bapa Ouest, Nimba Expedition, Liberia, 21.VII.1966; MNHN 1998.2524, grassfield foret, 450 m Nimba expedition, Liberia, 20.IX.1966; MNHN 1998.2524 & 2522, Grassfield, Mt. Nimba, Liberia, 500 m, pres de la foret?, 7.VII.1966; MNHN 41 specimens without number, New Mine Road, 700m (Seka valley forest), Liberian Nimba, 4.VII.1969; MNHN 1998.2664 and 2669 and 2670, grassfield, Nimba county, Mt. Nimba, Liberia, 1.VI.1969; MNHN 1998.1197, Nimba expedition, Liberia, grassfield, foret, 29.X.1966; MNHN 1998.2643 and 2645-2647, Mt. Alpha, Nimba Liberien, 1300 m, 4.V.1969; MNHN 1998.2618-2620 and 2624, Nimba (Liberia), 550-750 m, 28.XII.1965.