Biology:Anchieta's ridged frog

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Short description: Species of frog

Anchieta's ridged frog
Plain Grass Frog (Ptychadena anchietae) (13760689945).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ptychadenidae
Genus: Ptychadena
Species:
P. anchietae
Binomial name
Ptychadena anchietae
(Bocage, 1868)

Anchieta's ridged frog or plain grass frog (Ptychadena anchietae) is a species of frog in the family Ptychadenidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa , Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Burundi, and possibly Rwanda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, hot deserts, arable land, rural gardens, urban areas, and ponds.

References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2016). "Ptychadena anchietae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T58490A87737574. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T58490A87737574.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58490/87737574. Retrieved 15 November 2021. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2245454 entry