Mascarene Grass Frog

Mascarene Grass Frog
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ptychadenidae
Genus:	Ptychadena
Species:	P. mascareniensis
Binomial name
Ptychadena mascareniensis (Dumeril & Bibron, 1841)
Synonyms
Ptychadena hylaea Schmidt & Inger, 1959

The Mascarene Grass Frog or Mascarene Ridged Frog (Ptychadena mascareniensis) is a species of frog in the Ptychadenidae family.

Distribution

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

References

• Rödel, M.-O., Largen, M., Minter, L., Howell, K., Nussbaum, R. & Vences, M. 2004. Ptychadena mascareniensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.

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