Pickersgill's Banana Frog
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| Pickersgill's Banana Frog | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hyperoliidae |
| Genus: | Afrixalus |
| Species: | A. delicatus |
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| Afrixalus delicatus Pickersgill, 1984 |
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The Pickersgill's Banana Frog (Afrixalus delicatus) is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and possibly Swaziland. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, pastureland, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
[edit] References
- Pickersgill, M., Schiøtz, A. & Minter, L. 2004. Afrixalus delicatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.
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