The Cameroon clawed frog (''Xenopus epitropicalis'') is a species of
frog in the family
Pipidae
The Pipidae are a family of primitive, tongueless frogs. The 41 species in the family Pipidae are found in tropical South America (genus ''Pipa'') and sub-Saharan Africa (the three other genera).
Description
Pipid frogs are highly aquatic and ...
found in Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and possibly Sudan. Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forests, freshwater
marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, heavily degraded former forest, and
ponds.
It is threatened by
habitat loss.
References
Xenopus
Amphibians described in 1982
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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