Fraser's platanna (''Xenopus fraseri'') is a species of
frogs 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
Angola,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...
,
Gabon, and possibly
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 ...
.
Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forests,
rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater
lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater
marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, and
ponds.
References
Xenopus
Amphibians described in 1905
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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