Ptychadena tellinii

Ptychadena tellinii
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ptychadenidae
Genus: Ptychadena
Species: P. tellinii
Binomial name
Ptychadena tellinii
(Peracca, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Phrynobatrachus tellinii Peracca, 1904
  • Ptychadena schubotzi (Sternfeld, 1917)
  • Rana cornii Scortecci, 1929

Ptychadena tellinii is a species of frog in the Ptychadenidae family. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, possibly Benin, possibly Chad, possibly Guinea, possibly Liberia, and possibly Sudan.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, rural gardens, and ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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