Aubria subsigillata

Brown ball frog
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pyxicephalidae
Genus: Aubria
Species: A. subsigillata
Binomial name
Aubria subsigillata
(Duméril, 1856)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aubria occidentalis Perret, 1995 "1994"
  • Aubria subsigillata Laurent, 1953
  • Aubrya subsigillata Schiøtz, 1964
  • Leptodactylodon ventrimaculata Laurent, 1946
  • Phrynopsis ventrimaculata Nieden, 1908
  • Rana subsigillata Parker, 1936
  • Rana (Aubria) subsigillata Boulenger, 1917

Aubria subsigillata, commonly known as the brown ball frog or the West African brown frog, is a species of frog belonging to the family Pyxicephalidae. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and possibly Nigeria. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, and ponds.[2]

References

  1. ^ Darrel Frost and The American Museum of Natural History. "Aubria subsigillata (Duméril, 1856)". Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/?action=references&id=20999. 
  2. ^ Amiet, J.-L., Rödel, M.-O., Ohler, A., Perret, J.-L. & Burger, M. 2004. Aubria subsigillata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.