Merlin's dwarf gray frog
| Pseudhymenochirus merlini | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pipidae |
| Genus: | Pseudhymenochirus Chabanaud, 1920 |
| Species: | P. merlini |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudhymenochirus merlini Chabanaud, 1920 | |
Merlin's dwarf gray frog or Merlin's clawed frog, Pseudhymenochirus merlini, is a species of frog in the Pipidae family.[1][2] It is monotypic within the genus Pseudhymenochirus. This taxon has also been placed as a subgenus in Hymenochirus (African dwarf frogs), although it is geographically widely separated from that genus.[3] It is found in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Sierra Leone.[1][2]
Pseudhymenochirus merlini is a largely aquatic frog that lives in aquatic habitats with shade, e.g., still water in lowland forests and agricultural land, and in small, very slow-moving rocky streams. It avoids waterbodies with many fish. It can colonize newly created aquatic habitats by migrating overland.[1]
Pseudhymenochirus merlini is harvested for local food consumption, posing some threat to it. Also harvesting of shading trees and introduced predatory fish can have local negative impact, but overall this species in not threatened.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2013). "Pseudhymenochirus merlini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) 2013: e.T58165A18397096. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T58165A18397096.en.
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Pseudhymenochirus merlini Chabanaud, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Pseudhymenochirus Chabanaud, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 23 October 2015.