Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Eritrea clawed frog, Peracca's Clawed Frog
Description
Habitat
Ecology:
It is a water-dependent species, living in permanent water in a wide
variety of habitats
, including both montane
and lowland forest
, montane
grassland, Acacia woodland and arid
savannah. It breeds
in permanent, still and slow-flowing waterbodies.[1].
List of Habitats:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 2 Savanna
- 2.1 Savanna - Dry
- 2.2 Savanna - Moist
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 4 Grassland
- 4.5 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 4.7 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.1 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )
- 5.4 Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands
- 5.5 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)
- 5.7 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha) [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- 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
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Order:
Anura
()
- (Fischer von Waldheim, 1813) Gray, 1825
- Suborder:
Archeobatrachia
()
- Superfamily:
Pipoidea
()
- Family:
Pipidae
()
- Gray, 1825
- Subfamily:
Dactylethrinae
()
- Genus:
Xenopus
()
- Penz. & Sacc., 1901, nom. dub.
- Specific name:
clivii
- Scientific name: - Xenopus clivii Peracca, 1898
- Specific name:
clivii
- Genus:
Xenopus
(
- Subfamily:
Dactylethrinae
(
- Family:
Pipidae
(
- Superfamily:
Pipoidea
(
- Suborder:
Archeobatrachia
(
- Order:
Anura
(
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Peracca,M.G. Descrizione di una nuova specie
di amfisbena del Brasile. Boll. Mus. Zool. Univ. Torino, vol.
13, no. 326, pp. 1-2., 1898.
Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009
Similar Species
Members of the genus Xenopus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:
X. amieti (Volcano Clawed Frog) · X. andrei (Andre's Clawed Frog) · X. borealis (Marsabit Clawed Frog) · X. boumbaensis (Mawa Clawed Frog) · X. clivii (Eritrea Clawed Frog) · X. fraseri (Fraser's Clawed Frog) · X. gilli (Cape Clawed Frog) · X. itombwensis (Itombwe Massif Clawed Frog) · X. laevis (African Clawed Frog) · X. laevis laevis (African Clawed Frog) · X. laevis victorianus (African Clawed Frog) · X. largeni (Largen's Clawed Frog) · X. longipes (Savannah Clawed Frog) · X. muelleri (Muller's Clawed Frog) · X. petersii (Peters' Platanna) · X. pygmaeus (Bouchia Clawed Frog) · X. ruwenzoriensis (Uganda Clawed Frog) · X. vestitus (Kivu Clawed Frog) · X. victorianus (Mwanza Frog) · X. wittei (De Witte's Clawed Frog)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Redescription of the Paleogene Shelania pascuali from Patagonia and its bearing on the relationships of fossil and recent pipoid frogs / by Ana Mar Bz and Linda Trueb. 1997 Lawrence, Kan.: Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, c1997. url fig. 13, page 24.
- Science-gossip. Berlin: R. Friedlnder & Sohn, [1894]-1902. url p. 349.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- John Measey, Richard Tinsley, Malcolm Largen 2004. Xenopus clivii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
- Measey, J., Tinsley, R. & Largen, M. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:
- California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-664852
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 664852
- IUCN ID: 249111
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 133079
Footnotes
- John Measey, Richard Tinsley, Malcolm Largen 2004. Xenopus clivii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
