Schilluk Ridged Frog

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Schilluk Ridged Frog
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Ranidae Genus: Ptychadena Species: P. schillukorum
Binomial name
Ptychadena schillukorum (Werner, 1908)
Synonyms
Ptychadena cotti (Parker, 1930) Pychadena floweri (Boulenger, 1917)

The Schilluk Ridged Frog (Ptychadena schillukorum) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, ponds, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

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• Rödel, M.-O., Largen, M., Poynton, J.C. & Channing, A. 2004. Ptychadena schillukorum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.