De Witte's clawed frog, ''Xenopus wittei'', is a species of
frog in the family
Pipidae
The Pipidae are a family of primitive, tongueless frogs. The 41 species in the family Pipidae are found in tropical South America (genus ''Pipa'') and sub-Saharan Africa (the three other genera).
Description
Pipid frogs are highly aquatic and ...
found in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
,
Uganda, and possibly
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...
. Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical moist
montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude
grassland,
rivers,
swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...
s, freshwater
lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater
marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes,
arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, water storage areas,
ponds, and
canals and ditches.
It is named in honor of the
Belgian herpetologist Gaston-François de Witte Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at :fr:Gaston-François de Witte; see its history for attribution.
Gaston-François de Witte (12 June 1897, Antwerp – 1 June 1980, Brussels) was a Belgian herpetologis ...
(1897-1980).
References
Xenopus
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians described in 1979
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