The banded banana frog (''Afrixalus fulvovittatus'') is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...

in the family

Hyperoliidae The Hyperoliidae, or sedge frogs and bush frogs, are a large family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored frogs which contains more than 250 species in 19 genera. Seventeen genera are native to sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, the monotypic ...

. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

s are moist savanna, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by

habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby ...

References

* Channing, A., & Howell K. (2006). Amphibians of East Africa. Comstock books in herpetology. 418 p., 4p. of plates. Ithaca: Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press,. * Zimkus, B. 2012
Afrixalus fulvovittatus
African Amphibians Lifedesk Afrixalus Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1860 {{Hyperoliidae-stub