Marbled snout-burrower
| Marbled snout-burrower | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemisotidae |
| Genus: | Hemisus |
| Species: | H. marmoratus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hemisus sudanensis (Steindachner, 1863) | |
The marbled snout-burrower (Hemisus marmoratus) is a species of frog in the Hemisotidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Burundi, possibly Mali, possibly Niger, possibly Rwanda, possibly Sierra Leone, and possibly Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, plantations, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It is also called the mottled shovelnose frog.
References
- Msuya, C., Rödel, M.-O., Poynton, J.C., Minter, L., Largen, M. & Lötters, S. 2004. Hemisus marmoratus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.