Afrixalus stuhlmanni

Afrixalus stuhlmanni
Afrixalus stuhlmanni brachycnemis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hyperoliidae
Genus: Afrixalus
Species: A. stuhlmanni
Binomial name
Afrixalus stuhlmanni
(Pfeffer, 1893)

Afrixalus stuhlmanni is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.

Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater marshes, arable land, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It can tolerate many types of habitat and is common to abundant in some areas.[1]

This is considered by some authors to represent a species complex that includes several other species of frog in the genus, such as A. sylvaticus.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Pickersgill, M., Schiøtz, A. & Howell, K. 2004. Afrixalus stuhlmanni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 November 2010.
  2. ^ Pickersgill, M. (2005). The taxonomy and ethology of the Afrixalus stuhlmanni complex (Anura: Hyperoliidae). Steenstrupia 29 1-37.