Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Brevicipitidae > Breviceps > Breviceps namaquensisBreviceps namaquensis (Rain frog)The Namaqua rain frog (Breviceps namaquensis) is a species of frog in the Brevicipitidae family, found in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and possibly Namibia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and sandy shores. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 21.05 EDGE Score: 3.09 |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 1.929 inches (4.9 cm) |
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Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Succulent Karoo |
Namibia, South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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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. ♦ 2Ecology of the Namaqua Dwarf Adder, Bitis schneideri, Bryan Maritz, Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2011) Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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