Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Brevicipitidae > Breviceps > Breviceps gibbosus

Breviceps gibbosus (Rain frog)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

The cape rain frog or giant rain frog (Breviceps gibbosus) is a species of frog in the Brevicipitidae family. Adults grow up to 45 mm in length. It was the first African frog species to be scientifically described by Linnaeus in 1758, under the name Rana gibbosa. It is the most common and largest of rain frogs.
View Wikipedia Record: Breviceps gibbosus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
58
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 21.05
EDGE Score: 4.48

Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Litter Size [1]  30
Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Knysna-Amatole montane forests South Africa Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Montane fynbos and renosterveld South Africa Afrotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cape Floristic Region South Africa Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0