Bronze caco
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| Bronze caco | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Petropedetidae |
| Genus: | Cacosternum |
| Species: | C. nanum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cacosternum nanum Boulenger, 1887 | |
The bronze caco or bronze dainty frog (Cacosternum nanum) is a species of frog in the Petropedetidae family, found in South Africa and Swaziland, and possibly Lesotho and Mozambique. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, canals and ditches, and introduced vegetation.
References
- Channing, A., Minter, L. & Scott, E. 2004. Cacosternum nanum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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