Spotted snout-burrower
| Spotted snout-burrower | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemisotidae |
| Genus: | Hemisus |
| Species: | H. guttatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemisus guttatus (Rapp, 1842) | |
The spotted snout-burrower or spotted shovelnose frog (Hemisus guttatus) is a species of frog in the Hemisotidae family, found in South Africa and possibly Swaziland. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sources
- ↑ South African Frog Re-assessment Group (SA-FRoG) & IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2010). "Hemisus guttatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
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