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Tomopterna tandyi (Tandy's Sand Frog)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Tandy's sand frog (Tomopterna tandyi) is a species of frog in the Pyxicephalidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, and Tanzania, and possibly Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, water storage areas, ponds, canals, and ditches.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.8
EDGE Score: 2.82
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Attributes

Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Albany thickets South Africa Afrotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Knysna-Amatole montane forests South Africa Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cape Floristic Region South Africa No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa 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