Peters' platanna (''Xenopus petersii'') 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
Angola,
Botswana, the
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 ...
, 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
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...
, 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,
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, freshwater
springs,
arable land, pastureland, rural gardens,
urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, water storage areas,
ponds, open excavations, and
canals and ditches.
References
Xenopus
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians described in 1895
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