Peters' Platanna

Taxobox
name = Peters' Platanna


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Pipidae
genus = "Xenopus"
species = "X. petersii"
binomial = "Xenopus petersii"
binomial_authority = Bocage, 1895
synonyms = The Peters' Platanna ("Xenopus petersii") is a species of frog in the Pipidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Tanzania.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, freshwater springs, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, open excavations, and canals and ditches.

ource

* Tinsley, R., Measey, J., Burger, M. & Fretey, T. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/58178/all Xenopus petersii] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 23 July 2007.