Bouchia clawed frog

Bouchia clawed frog
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Pipidae
Genus:	Xenopus
Species:	X. pygmaeus
Binomial name
Xenopus pygmaeus Loumont, 1986

The Bouchia clawed frog (Xenopus pygmaeus) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and possibly the Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forests. ^[1]

References

1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2016). "Xenopus pygmaeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T58179A18397955. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T58179A18397955.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.

Further reading

• King JD, Mechkarska M, Coquet L, Leprince J, Jouenne T, Vaudry H, Takada K, Conlon JM (November 22, 2011). "Host-defense peptides from skin secretions of the tetraploid frogs Xenopus petersii and Xenopus pygmaeus, and the octoploid frog Xenopus lenduensis (Pipidae)". Peptides. 33 (1): 35–43. doi:10.1016/j.peptides.2011.11.015. PMID   22123629. S2CID   19130453.