Bronze Caco

Taxobox
name = Bronze Caco


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Petropedetidae
genus = "Cacosternum"
species = "C. nanum"
binomial = "Cacosternum nanum"
binomial_authority = Boulenger, 1887
synonyms = The Bronze Caco or Bronze Dainty Frog ("Cacosternum nanum") is a species of frog in the Petropedetidae family.It is found in South Africa, Swaziland, possibly Lesotho, and possibly Mozambique.Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, canals and ditches, and introduced vegetation.

References

* Channing, A., Minter, L. & Scott, E. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/58070/all Cacosternum nanum] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 23 July 2007.