Leptopelis viridis
| Leptopelis viridis | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hyperoliidae |
| Genus: | Leptopelis |
| Species: | L. viridis |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptopelis viridis (Gunther, 1869) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leptopelis hyloides Schiøtz, 1967 | |
Leptopelis viridis (the rusty forest treefrog, savannah tree frog or Gbanga forest treefrog[1]) is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, and possibly the Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, and Sudan. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, rural gardens, ponds, and canals and ditches.
References
- ↑ Frost, Darrel (2014). "Leptopelis viridis". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- Rödel, M.-O. & Schiøtz, A. 2004. Leptopelis viridis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.