Tropical Clawed Frog
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| Silurana tropicalis Gray, 1864 |
The Tropical Clawed Frog (Silurana tropicalis) is a species of frog in the Pipidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and possibly Mali. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, and canals and ditches.
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- Tinsley, R., Rödel, M.-O. & Measey, J. 2004. Silurana tropicalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.

