Guinea Snout-burrower

Guinea Snout-burrower
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hemisotidae
Genus: Hemisus
Species: H. guineensis
Binomial name
Hemisus guineensis
Cope, 1865

The Guinea Snout-burrower (Hemisus guineensis) is a species of frog in the Hemisotidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Botswana, possibly Burundi, possibly Central African Republic, possibly Gambia, possibly Malawi, possibly Namibia, possibly Niger, possibly Rwanda, possibly Sudan, and possibly Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches.

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