World Species : Phrynobatrachus natalensis (Puddle frog)

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Phrynobatrachus natalensis (Puddle frog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Natal dwarf puddle frog (Phrynobatrachus natalensis) is a species of frog in the Phrynobatrachidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burkina Faso, Chad, Lesotho, and Mauritania.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 12.43

EDGE Score: 2.6

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Attributes

Litter Size ^[1]	400
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	1.575 inches (4 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Albertine Rift montane forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Angolan Miombo woodlands	Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic	Angola	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Angolan Mopane woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands	Angola	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests	South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
East African montane forests	Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Arc forests	Tanzania, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Mozambique	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Ethiopian montane forests	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands	Ethiopia, Eritrea	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Ethiopian montane moorlands	Ethiopia	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic	Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Highveld grasslands	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Kalahari xeric savanna	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kaokoveld desert	Namibia, Angola	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic	South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Maputaland coastal forest mosaic	Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Nigerian lowland forests	Nigeria, Benin	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Africa bushveld	Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Miombo woodlands	Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic	Malawi, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic	Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
West Sudanian savanna	Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Gabon, Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Guinean lowland forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Zambezian grasslands	Angola, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands	South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands	Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian flooded grasslands	Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa	Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania	No
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	No
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany	Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland	No

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