African Clawed Frogs
Xenopus
Xenopus () (from Greek ξενος, xenos 'strange' + πους, pous 'foot', commonly known as the clawed frog) is a genus of highly aquatic frogs native to sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty species are currently described within it. The two best-known species of this genus are Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis, which are commonly studied as model organisms for developmental biology, cell biology, toxicology, neuroscience and for modelling human disease and birth defects.
The genus is also known for its allopolyploidy, with some species having up to 12 sets of chromosomes (all except for X. tropicalis have undergone diploidization; the highest is 2n = 12x = 108).
30 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 29 known species
African Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus laevis
Müller's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus muelleri
Cape Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus gilli
Marsabit Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus borealis
Tropical Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus tropicalis
Lake Victoria Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus victorianus
Peters' Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus petersii
Powers Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus poweri
Andre's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus andrei
Eritrea Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus clivii
Lake Oku Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus longipes
Gabonese Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus mellotropicalis
De Witte's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus wittei
Upland Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus parafraseri
Bamiléké Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus eysoole
Fischberg's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus fischbergi
Xenopus gilli × laevis
hybridXenopus gilli × laevis
Uganda Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus ruwenzoriensis
Biafran Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus calcaratus
Largen's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus largeni
Volcano Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus amieti
Cameroon Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus epitropicalis
Bouchia Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus pygmaeus
Kivu Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus vestitus
False Fraser's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus allofraseri
Mawa Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus boumbaensis
Fraser's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus fraseri
Itombe Massif Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus itombwensis
Kobel's Clawed Frog
speciesXenopus kobeli
Lendu Plateau clawed frog
speciesXenopus lenduensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 25443.