Tomato Frog

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Tomato Frog

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Dyscophus
Species: D. antongilii
Binomial name
Dyscophus antongilii
Grandidier, 1877

The Tomato Frog or Crapaud Rouge De Madagascar (Dyscophus antongilii) is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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