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The western clawed frog is an aquatic species and is found in the West African rainforest belt with a range stretching from Senegal to Cameroon and eastern Zaire. It is generally considered a forest-dwelling species and inhabits slow-moving streams, but it is also found in pools and temporary ponds in the northern Guinea and Sudan savannas. [9]
Hymenochirus curtipes, also known as western dwarf clawed frog, is a species of frog in the family Pipidae. It is found in western Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjacent Republic of the Congo. [1] [3] It is likely to occur in the southernmost Central African Republic. [1]
Xenopus fischbergi, the Fischberg's clawed frog, is a species of frog native to Central and Western Africa. [2] It occurs in habitats such as savannas and wetlands. It can be found in elevations between 120 and 550 m (390 and 1,800 ft). It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List and populations are stable.
Xenopus (/ ˈ z ɛ n ə p ə s / [1] [2]) (Gk., ξενος, xenos = strange, πους, pous = foot, commonly known as the clawed frog) is a genus of highly aquatic frogs native to sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty species are currently described within it.
Western frog may refer to: Western banjo frog (Limnodynastes dorsalis), a frog in the family Myobatrachidae endemic to Western Australia; Western bell frog (Litoria moorei), a frog in the family Hylidae found in Southwest Australia; Western chorus frog (Pseudacris triseriata), a frog in the family Hylidae found in Canada and the United States
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Hymenochirus boettgeri, also known as the Zaire dwarf clawed frog [2] or the Congo dwarf clawed frog, [1] is a species of frog in the family Pipidae. It is found in Nigeria , Cameroon , Equatorial Guinea , Gabon , and east to the Central African Republic and to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Xenopus parafraseri, the upland clawed frog, is an endemic species of frog in Gabon, Congo, and Cameroon in Central and West Africa. It's a Least Concern species on the IUCN Red List, although populations are declining. It lives in forests and wetlands, and in elevations of up to 420 to 715 m (1,378 to 2,346 ft). [2]