Andre's clawed frog (''Xenopus andrei'') 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 ...
. It is known, with certainty, only from coastal
Cameroon (where its
type locality
Type locality may refer to:
* Type locality (biology)
* Type locality (geology)
See also
* Local (disambiguation)
* Locality (disambiguation)
{{disambiguation ...
, Longyi, near
Kribi), northeastern
Gabon, western
Central African Republic and northwestern
Angola.
[ It presumably occurs in the intervening ]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, and 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 ...
.[
Its natural habitats are lowland forests, where it occurs almost exclusively in water, in small ponds, shady swamps and pools. It is harvested by some human inhabitants within its range for food.]
References
Xenopus
Amphibians described in 1983
Amphibians of Angola
Amphibians of Cameroon
Amphibians of the Central African Republic
Amphibians of Gabon
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Frogs of Africa
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