Olive snout-burrower

Olive snout-burrower
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hemisotidae
Genus: Hemisus
Species: H. olivaceus
Binomial name
Hemisus olivaceus
Laurent, 1963

The olive snout-burrower or olive shovelnose frog (Hemisus olivaceus) is a species of frog in the Hemisotidae family, found in Democratic Republic of the Congo and possibly Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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