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27 August 2024

We have growing checklists of species in and around Ngel Nyaki. They include plants, invertebrates, birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish, and fungi. From freshwater invertebrates to fungi, learn more about biodiversity at Ngel Nyaki.

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  • Freshwater Invertebrates of the Mambilla Plateau Danladi M. Umar, Jon S. Harding & Michael J. Winterbourn. Published by the School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, November 2013. 86 pages, colour.
    ISBN (Print) 978-0-473-25489-6, (PDF) 978-0-473-25490-2

  • Nigerian Cameroon chimpanzee Pan troglodytes ellioti
  • Putty nose monkey Cercopithecus nicititans
  • Mona monkey Cercopithecus mona
  • Tantalus monkey Chlorocebus tantalus
  • Olive baboon Papio anubis
  • Black and white Colobus monkey Colobus guereza occidentalis
  • Western bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus
  • Blue duiker Philantomba monticola
  • African pouched rat Cricetomys sp.nov.
  • Side striped jackal Canis adustus

Mambilla Plateau sightings
  • Cattle Egret
  • Spur-winged Goose
  • Black-shouldered Kite
  • Yellow-billed Kite
  • Hooded Vulture
  • African White-backed Vulture
  • Ruppell's Griffon Vulture
  • Short-toed Eagle
  • Brown Snake Eagle
  • Bateleur
  • African Harrier Hawk
  • Marsh Harrier
  • Red-necked Buzzard
  • African Hawk-Eagle
  • Crowned Eagle
  • Martial Eagle
  • Common Kestrel
  • Fox Kestrel
  • Lanner Falcon
  • Double-spurred Francolin
  • Scaly Francolin
  • Little Button-Quail
  • White-spotted Flufftail
  • Wattled Plover
  • African Green Pigeon
  • Tambourine Dove
  • Blue-spotted Wood Dove
  • Lemon Dove
  • Cameroon Olive Pigeon
  • Red-eyed Dove
  • Adamawa Turtle Dove
  • Laughing Dove
  • Great Blue Turaco
  • Green Turaco
  • White-crested Turaco
  • Levaillants Cuckoo
  • African Cuckoo
  • Senegal Coucal
  • Chestnut-backed Owlet
  • African Wood Owl
  • Marsh Owl
  • Nightjar sp
  • African Palm Swift
  • Swift sp
  • Little Swift
  • Speckled Mousebird
  • Bar-tailed Trogon
  • Grey-headed Kingfisher
  • African Pygmy Kingfisher
  • Black Bee-eater
  • Blue-breasted Bee-eater
  • Piping Hornbill
  • Naked-faced Barbet
  • Western Green Tinkerbird
  • Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
  • Yellow-spotted Barbet
  • Double-toothed Barbet
  • Yellow-billed Barbet
  • Honeyguide sp
  • Cardinal Woodpecker
  • Elliot's Woodpecker
  • Rufous-naped Lark
  • Black Saw-wing
  • Lesser-striped Swallow
  • Rock Martin
  • Barn Swallow
  • House Martin
  • Yellow Wagtail
  • Plain-backed Pipit
  • Tree Pipit
  • Yellow-throated Longclaw
  • Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
  • Petit's Cuckoo-Shrike
  • Western Mountain Greenbul
  • Little Greenbul
  • Slender-billed Greenbul
  • Yellow-throated Leaf-love
  • Cameroon Olive Greenbul
  • Common Bulbul
  • Nightingale
  • Grey-winged Robin-Chat
  • Red-capped Robin-Chat
  • White-crowned Robin-Chat
  • Common Stonechat
  • Whinchat
  • Heuglin's Wheatear
  • Familiar Chat
  • Sooty Chat
  • African Thrush
  • Bangwa Forest Warbler
  • African Moustached Warbler
  • Melodious Warbler
  • Stout Cisticola
  • Croaking Cisticola
  • Tawny-flanked Prinia
  • White-chinned Prinia
  • Black-collared Apalis
  • Black-throated Apalis
  • Grey Apalis
  • Grey-backed Cameroptera
  • Oriole Warbler
  • Willow Warbler
  • Blackcap
  • Garden Warbler
  • Whitethroat
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • African Dusky Flycatcher
  • Pied Flycatcher
  • Common Wattle-eye
  • African Blue Flycatcher
  • African Paradise Flycatcher
  • Black-cap Babbler
  • Yellow White-eye
  • Collared Sunbird
  • Pygmy Sunbird
  • Cameroon Sunbird
  • Green-headed Sunbird
  • Variable Sunbird
  • Orange-tufted Sunbird
  • Northern double-collared Sunbird
  • Copper Sunbird
  • Splendid Sunbird
  • Common Fiscal
  • Northern Puffback
  • Pink-footed Puffback
  • Brown-crowned Tchagra
  • Marsh Tchagra
  • Yellow-breasted Boubou
  • Square-tailed Drongo
  • Pied Crow
  • Black-winged Oriole
  • Violet-backed Starling
  • Yellow-billed Oxpecker
  • Grey-headed Sparrow
  • Bush Petronia
  • Bannerman's Weaver
  • Baglafecht Weaver
  • Black-necked Weaver
  • Black-billed Weaver
  • Village Weaver
  • Dark-backed Weaver
  • Western Bluebill
  • Yellow Bishop
  • Pale-fronted Negro-finch
  • Grey-headed Negro-finch
  • Fernando Po Oliveback
  • Dybowski's Twinspot
  • Red-cheeked Cordo-bleu
  • Orange-cheeked Waxbill
  • Black-crowned Waxbill
  • Common Waxbill
  • Bronze Manikin
  • Black and White Manikin
  • Pin-tailed Whydah
  • Yellow-fronted Canary
  • Thick-billed Seed-eater
  • Oriole-Finch
  • Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting

View the bird checklist.

Fungi Identification Guide for Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria has been produced and is available on request. 

Collected by Matt Walters, Bobo, Sasha Roselli, Idirssa Musa and the Field Assistants, December 2012. Identifications by Dr Milen Marinov. 

  • Brachythemis impartiata
  • Chalcostephia flavifrons
  • Crocothemis erythraea
  • Crocothemis sanguinolenta
  • Orthetrum abbotti
  • Orthetrum angustiventre
  • Orthetrum camerunense
  • Orthetrum chrysostigma
  • Orthetrum guineense
  • Orthetrum hintzi
  • Orthetrum sp.
  • Palpopleura portia
  • Pseudagrion sp.
  • Trithemis imitata

D.P. Knoop has been responsible for taxonomic determinations, for convenience nomenclature and sequence follows Carcasson.

Species confined to the Cameroon-Nigeria Afromontane group are marked with an asterisks (*). ssp. indicates a subspecies.

Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) collected at Ngel Nyaki, Nov-2005

Type faces and position below Super-Family status.


PAPILIONOIDAE - Super-Family


PAPILIONIDAE - Family


PAPILIONINAE - Subfamily


LAMPROPTERINI -Tribe

  • Graphium Scopoli, 1777 -Genus

Systematic species list of Lepidoptera

(Rhopalocera)


HESPERIOIDAE


HESPERIIDAE

  • 1 species not identified


PAPILIONOIDAE

PAPILIONINAE

  • Papilio (Linnaeus, 1758)
    • plagiatus *(Aurivillius, 1898)
    • zenobia (Fabricius, 1775)
    • demodocus (Esper, 1798)
    • dardanus (Brown, 1776)

NYMPHALIDAE

SATYRINAE

MELANITINI

  • Gnophodes Westwood, 1851
    • betsimena ssp. parmeno (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1851)
  • Bicyclus Kirby, 1871
    • mandanes (Hewitson, 1873) Riverine and lowland forest.
    • golo (Aurivillius, 1893) Montane forest.
    • safitza
    • sangmelinae

SATYRINI

  • Ypthima Hubner, 1818
    • albida ssp. occidentalis *(Bartel, 1905)

COLIADINAE

  • Catopsilia Hubner, 1819
    • florella (Fabricius, 1807)
  • Eurema Hubner, 1819
    • brigitta (Stoll, 1780)

PIERINAE

  • Colotis Hubner, 1819
    • aurora ssp. evarne
  • Belenois Hubner, 1819
    • calypso (Drury, 1773)
    • aurota (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Mylothris Hubner, 1819
    • chloris (Fabricius, 1775)
    • jacksoni ssp. knudsoni (Aurivillius, 1891)

CHARAXINAE

  • Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816
    • fulvescens (Aurivillius, 1891)

NYMPHALINAE

  • Bebearia Hemming, 1960
    • plistonax (Hewitson, 1874)
    • sophus (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Euphaedra Hubner, 1819
    • zaddachi (Dewitz, 1879)
    • medon (Linnaeus, 1763)
    • losinga (Hewitson, 1862)
    • prosperina - really bad specimen
  • Aterica Boisduval, 1833
    • galene (Brown, 1776)
  • Cynandra Schatz, 1887
    • opis (Drury, 1773)

NYMPHALINI

  • Kallimoides Shironzu & Nakanishi, 1984
    • rumia (Westwood, 1850)
  • Protogoniomorpho ( ? )
    • parhassus (Drury, 1782)
  • Junonia Hubner, 1819
    • orithia ssp. madagascariensis (Guenee, 1864) Woodland and montane grassland.
    • hierta ssp. cebrene (Trimen, 1870) Woodland and montane grassland.
    • terea (Drury, 1773) Woodland.
  • Precis Hubner, 1819
    • octavia (Cramer, 1777) Woodland, Montane grassland.
    • perlarga (Fabricius, 1775) Woodland.
    • rauana ssp. omissa (Rothschild, 1918) Montane forest.

BIBLINI

  • Byblia Hubner, 1818
    • anvatara ssp. crameri (Aurivillius, 1894)

NEPTINI

  • Neptis Fabricius, 1807
    • morosa (Overlaet, 1955)

ACRAEINAE

ACRAEINI

  • Acraea (Fabricius, 1807)
    • viviana *(Staudinger, 1896) Montane forest, Leinde Fadali.
    • karschi *(Aurivillius, 1898) Montane forest.
    • pharsalus (Ward, 1871) Lowland and montane forest.
    • lycoa (Godart, 1819) Woodland and lowland forest.
    • serena ( ? )
    • rogersi *(Hewitson, 1873) Montane forest.
    • bonasia (Fabricius, 1775)
  •  

Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) collected at Ngel Nyaki 4-2006

two very good records were added to Ngel Nyaki:

  • Acraea prenna 
  • Graphium alamansor

 

Also:

  • Graphium alamansor*
  • Hypolymnas salmacis
  • Protogoniomorpha temora
  • Junonia oenone
  • Belenois zochalia*
  • Pseudargynnis hegemone*
  • Charaxes etheocles
  • Neptis morosa
  • Bicyclus safitza
  • Acraea prenna
    • rogersi
    • egina
  • Amauris damocles
  • *Montane stenotypics


Both are rarely encountered within Nigeria.

  • Acraea orestia query v

Species observed in grassland and woodland:

Lizards

  • Agama cf. sylvanus
  • Trachylepis cf. maculabris
  • Monitor lizard Varanus niloticus

Snakes

  • Emerald Snake Hapsidophrys smaragdinus
  • Forest Cobra Naja melanoleuca
  • Gabon Viper Bitis gabonica
  • Yellow-throated Bold Eye Tree Snake Thrasops flavigularis

Species collected in stream near Yelwa:

  •  Aphyosemion ?elberti

Preliminary list of amphibians recorded in Ngel Nyaki and Kurmin Danko Forest Reserves, and nearby Yelwa. Data from 2009 and 2012, collated by PhD student Denise Arroyo Lambaer.

SPECIESNgel Nyaki    |  Kurmin Danko    |  YELWA
Arthroleptis palavax x
Arthroleptis cf. sylvaticusx  
Cardioglossa pulchrax  
Cardioglossa schioetzixx 
Astylosternus cf. diadematusxx 
Astylosternus cf. rheophilusxx 
Leptodactylodon bicolorx  
Leptodactylodon sp.x  
Leptopelis nordequatorialisxx 
Amietophrynus maculatusx x
Amietophrynus steindachnerix  
Amietophrynus villiersix x
Afrixalus quadrivittatusx  
Hyperolius sp.x  
Hyperolius nitidulusx  
Hyperolius cf. nasutusx  
Hyperolius riggenbachixx 
Kassina senegalensis  x
Phrynobatrachus sp.x  
Phrynobatrachus danko x 
Phrynobatrachus steindachnerix  
Xenopus sp. x 
Xenopus laevisx x
Ptychadena sp.  x
Rana sp.x  

David Blackburn visited Ngel Nyaki in April 2009 and made a preliminary inventory of frogs and reptiles:

Species collected in Ngel Nyaki forest: Arthroleptis cf. sylvaticusAstylosternus sp.; Cardioglossa sp. 1; Cardioglossa sp. 2; Leptodactylodon cf. bicolorLeptopelis sp.; Phrynobatrachus steindachneriPhrynobatrachus sp. nov.

Species collected from grasslands or riparian forest:
Arthroleptis sp. nov.; Bufo ?villiersiLeptopelis nordequatorialisPtychadena sp.

Species heard in grasslands and riparian forest:
Kassina sp.; Phrynobatrachus cf. werneri

Amphibian identifications by D.C. Blackburn and Denise Arroyo Lambaer
Reptile identifications by D.C. Blackburn and L. Welton
Fish identification by E.O. Wiley
Butterfly identifications by D.P. Knoop
Dragonfly identifications by Dr Milen Marinov

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