Brown ball frog | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Pyxicephalidae |
Genus: | Aubria |
Species: | A. subsigillata |
Binomial name | |
Aubria subsigillata (Duméril, 1856) |
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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]