The Kivu clawed frog (''Xenopus vestitus'') 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 ...
, and
Uganda. 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 aquaculture ponds.
References
Xenopus
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians described in 1972
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