Lesser Banana Frog

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Lesser Banana Frog
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Hyperoliidae Genus: Afrixalus Species: A. brachycnemis
Binomial name
Afrixalus brachycnemis (Boulenger, 1896)

The Lesser Banana Frog (Afrixalus brachycnemis) is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and possibly Zambia. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.

[edit] Source

• Pickersgill, M. &, Schiøtz, A. 2004. Afrixalus brachycnemis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.