The Katanga caco or Katanga metal frog (''Cacosternum leleupi'') is a species of
frog in the family
Pyxicephalidae
The Pyxicephalidae are a family of frogs currently found in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the Eocene, the taxon '' Thaumastosaurus'' lived in Europe.
Classification
The Pyxicephalidae contain two subfamilies, with a total of 12 genera. This f ...
,
endemic to
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Its natural
habitats are moist
savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland
grassland, intermittent
rivers,
swampland, and intermittent freshwater
marshes.
References
Cacosternum
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Taxa named by Raymond Laurent
Amphibians described in 1950
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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