Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Ptychadenidae > Ptychadena > Ptychadena nana

Ptychadena nana (Somali Grassland Frog)

Synonyms: Rana nana

Wikipedia Abstract

Ptychadena nana is a species of frog in the Ptychadenidae family.It is endemic to Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are intermittent freshwater marshes.
View Wikipedia Record: Ptychadena nana

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Ptychadena nana

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  336
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.181 inches (3 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands Ethiopia, Eritrea Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Ethiopian montane moorlands Ethiopia Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Arsi Controlled Hunting Area 2687518 Oromīya, Ethiopia      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe 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