Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Rattray's forest frog, Hogsback frog, Rattray's Frog
Description
Habitat
Ecology:
It inhabits the leaf-litter of montane
forest
and lives on the forest
edge
, being particularly associated with the grassland-forest ecotone
,
and with small patches of grass
and wetland inside forest. However,
it is not found outside forest. It makes a terrestrial
nest
, and
lays
11-20 eggs
, which develop directly, without a larval stage
.
[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.4 Forest - Temperate
- 4 Grassland
- 4.4 Grassland - Temperate [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Amphibia
()
- Gray, 1825
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Order:
Anura
()
- (Fischer von Waldheim, 1813) Gray, 1825
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
()
- Reig, 1958
- Superfamily:
Pyxicephaloidea
()
- Bonaparte, 1850
- Family:
Pyxicephalidae
()
- Bonaparte, 1850
- Subfamily:
Cacosterninae
()
- Genus:
Anhydrophryne
()
- Hewitt, 1919
- Specific name:
rattrayi
- Scientific name: - Anhydrophryne rattrayi Hewitt, 1919
- Specific name:
rattrayi
- Genus:
Anhydrophryne
(
- Subfamily:
Cacosterninae
(
- Family:
Pyxicephalidae
(
- Superfamily:
Pyxicephaloidea
(
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
(
- Order:
Anura
(
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Class:
Amphibia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009
Similar Species
Members of the genus Anhydrophryne
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. hewitti (Hewitts Moss Frog) · A. ngongoniensis (Mistbelt Chirping Frog) · A. rattrayi (Rattray's Forest Frog)
More Info
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Leslie Minter, Alan Channing, James Harrison 2004. Anhydrophryne rattrayi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Amphibian Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 29923
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-664736
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 664736
- IUCN ID: 191139
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2099
Footnotes
- Leslie Minter, Alan Channing, James Harrison 2004. Anhydrophryne rattrayi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
