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Brown Banana Frog
Afrixalus dorsalis
The brown banana frog (Afrixalus dorsalis), also known as the striped spiny reed frog, is an anuran in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and possibly Togo.
From the article Brown banana frog on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
These frogs have a light to dark brown with a silverish white pattern. These patterns can include a triangle on the tip of the snout, a big stripe leading to the groin, a light spot in the lumbar region, and/or 2 light spots on the tibia.
Range & habitat
It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and possibly Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 23470.