Banded banana frog

Banded banana frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hyperoliidae
Genus: Afrixalus
Species: A. fulvovittatus
Binomial name
Afrixalus fulvovittatus
(Cope, 1860)
Synonyms

Afrixalus vittiger Peters, 1876

Hyperolius brevipalmatus Ahl, 1931

Hyperolius leptosomus Peters, 1877

The banded banana frog (Afrixalus fulvovittatus) is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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