Afrixalus fornasini
| Afrixalus fornasini | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hyperoliidae |
| Genus: | Afrixalus |
| Species: | A. fornasini |
| Binomial name | |
| Afrixalus fornasini (Bianconi, 1849) | |
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Afrixalus fornasini is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family and is native to Africa. Its common name is Fornasini's spiny reed frog[1] or the Greater Leaf-folding Frog[2]
Distribution and habitat
It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa and possibly Swaziland. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, water storage areas, and ponds.
Conservation status
It is threatened in some parts of its range by habitat loss, but in general it is not very rare and in some places it is common.[3]
Gallery
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Tadpole
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Tadpole developing into a froglet
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Tadpole/ froglet taken out of the water
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Adult with throat-sack extended for mating call
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Adult on the leaf of a Giant Sedge (Cyperus dives)
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On a leaf of Jatropha curcas
Notes
- ↑ AmphibiaWeb
- ↑ Carruthers, V. (2001). First Field Guide to Frogs of Southern Africa. ISBN 978-1-86872-595-3.
- ↑ Pickersgill, M., Schiøtz, A. & Minter, L. 2004. Afrixalus fornasini. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 November 2010.