Andre's clawed frog

Andre's clawed frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pipidae
Genus: Xenopus
Species: X. andrei
Binomial name
Xenopus andrei
Loumont, 1983

Andre's clawed frog (Xenopus andrei) is a species of frog in the Pipidae family found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Gabon, and possibly the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Equatorial Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, and ponds.[1]

References

  1. Tinsley, R. & Measey, J. 2004. Xenopus andrei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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