African wart frog - Acanthixalus spinosus
( Buchholz & Peters, 1875 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It lives in lowland rainforest. The frogs are arboreal and aquatic spending most of their time, and breeding, in the small bodies of water that accumulate in cavities of living and dead trees. It can survive in heavily degraded forest, providing that large trees survive.

Range:
This species ranges from southeastern Nigeria and southern Cameroon east to northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Kivu), and south to extreme western Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayombe). It has been recorded from Gabon, and presumed to occur in southwestern Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and the Cabinda Enclave of Angola. The species' distribution on the map includes areas the species is presumed to occur.

Conservation:
It presumably occurs in a number of protected areas.

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