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Breviceps fuscus is a burrowing frog, and can be found in tunnels up to 150 mm deep or among vegetation up to about 30 cm above the ground, and it generally prefers to avoid water. [3] The frog generally spends most of its time underground as it does not require open water and is primarily nocturnal . [ 9 ]
The desert rain frog, web-footed rain frog, or Boulenger's short-headed frog (Breviceps macrops) is a species of frog in the family Brevicipitidae. It is found in Namibia and South Africa . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its natural habitat is the narrow strip of sandy shores between the sea and the sand dunes. [ 4 ]
The cape rain frog or giant rain frog (Breviceps gibbosus) is a species of frog in the family Brevicipitidae. [2] Adults grow up to 45 mm in length. It was the first African frog species to be scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, under the name Rana gibbosa. It is the most common and largest of rain frogs. [3]
The genus Breviceps consists of 20 species, of which most occur in southern Africa. There are five species found in the Western Cape, B. gibbosus, B. fuscus (black rain frog), B. rosei (Rose's rain frog), B. montanus (mountain rain frog) and B. acutirostris (strawberry rain frog).
Brevicipitidae or rain frogs is a small family of frogs found in eastern and southern Africa.As of 2020 contains 37 species in 5 genera. [1] [2] Formerly included as subfamily in Microhylidae (narrow-mouth frogs), phylogenetic research has indicated the brevicipitine frogs should be considered as a family with Hemisotidae (shovelnose frogs) as the most closely related sister taxon.
The Mozambique rain frog has a widespread distribution in southern and central Africa. Its range extends from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania in the north to the Republic of South Africa in the south. Its natural habitats are savannah, bushy country and open woodland, especially the moister parts of these.
Breviceps poweri, the Power's rain frog or Power's short-headed frog, is a species of frog in the family Brevicipitidae.It is found in northeastern Angola east through Zambia, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (southern Katanga Province), and Malawi, to western Mozambique and northeastern Zimbabwe; [2] possibly in Namibia. [1]
It is a fossorial frog that inhabits scrub-covered sandy areas in the succulent karoo biome. Development is direct [1] (i.e., there is no free-living larval stage [4]) and does require an aquatic habitat. [1] It is a locally abundant frog, but it can experience some habitat loss because of agricultural expansion in the south of its range. It is ...