Banded banana frog

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Banded banana frog
Afrixalus fulvovittatus fulvovittatus (10.3897-zse.90.8796) Figure 3.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hyperoliidae
Genus: Afrixalus
Species:
A. fulvovittatus
Binomial name
Afrixalus fulvovittatus
(Cope, 1860)
Synonyms
  • Afrixalus vittiger Peters, 1876
  • Hyperolius brevipalmatus Ahl, 1931
  • Hyperolius leptosomus Peters, 1877

The banded banana frog (Afrixalus fulvovittatus) is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2013). "Afrixalus fulvovittatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T56064A18369490. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T56064A18369490.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  • Channing, A., & Howell K. (2006). Amphibians of East Africa. Comstock books in herpetology. 418 p., [24] p. of plates. Ithaca: Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press,.
  • Zimkus, B. 2012. Afrixalus fulvovittatus. African Amphibians LifedeskError: "Q1943113" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.