Crowned Bullfrog

Crowned Bullfrog
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Hoplobatrachus
Species:	H. occipitalis
Binomial name
Hoplobatrachus occipitalis (Gunther, 1858)

The Crowned Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus occipitalis) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, and Zambia. 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, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, freshwater springs, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, and ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

• Rödel, M.-O., Largen, M., Burger, M., Howell, K., Salvador, A. & Lötters, S. 2004. Hoplobatrachus occipitalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.

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