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Pages in category "Amphibians of Africa" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Boulengerula;
The largest living amphibian is the 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) South China giant salamander (Andrias sligoi), but this is dwarfed by prehistoric temnospondyls such as Mastodonsaurus which could reach up to 6 m (20 ft) in length. The study of amphibians is called batrachology, while the study of both reptiles and amphibians is called herpetology.
The list below largely follows Darrel Frost's Amphibian Species of the World (ASW), Version 5.5 (31 January 2011). Another classification, which largely follows Frost, but deviates from it in part is the one of AmphibiaWeb , which is run by the California Academy of Sciences and several of universities.
They are found in Sub-Saharan Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Like other caecilians , they superficially resemble worms or snakes. [ 3 ] They are the sister group to the newly discovered Chikilidae .
1 Africa. 2 Asia. 3 Australasia. 4 Europe. 5 North America. ... Lists of amphibians by region are lists of amphibians in a given continent, country or smaller region ...
The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened ...
This category is for articles about amphibians native to West Africa which, for the purpose of this category, is defined as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
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