Peters' platanna

Peters' platanna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pipidae
Genus: Xenopus
Species: X. petersii
Binomial name
Xenopus petersii
Bocage, 1895

Peters' platanna (Xenopus petersii) is a species of frog in the Pipidae family found in Angola, Botswana, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Tanzania. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, water storage areas, ponds, open excavations, and canals and ditches.[1]

References

  1. Tinsley, R., Measey, J., Burger, M. & Fretey, T. 2004. Xenopus petersii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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