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Tomopterna

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Tomopterna (common names: sand frogs, burrowing frogs, Old World bullfrogs) is a genus of frogs from sub-Saharan Africa.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAmphibia
  4. OrderAnura
  5. FamilyPyxicephalidae
Observations recorded7,627

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
164
Family
Pyxicephalidae
Collections
TM, UF, CAS, TNHC
Recorded in
South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Kenya

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Tomopterna (common names: sand frogs, burrowing frogs, Old World bullfrogs) is a genus of frogs from sub-Saharan Africa.

==Species== The following species are recognised in the genus Tomopterna: Tomopterna ahli (Deckert, 1938) Tomopterna branchi Wilson and Channing, 2019 Tomopterna cryptotis (Boulenger, 1907) — common sand frog Tomopterna delalandii (Tschudi, 1838) — Delalande's sand frog Tomopterna elegans (Calabresi, 1927) Tomopterna gallmanni Wasonga & Channing, 2013 Tomopterna kachowskii Nikolskii, 1900 Tomopterna krugerensis Passmore & Carruthers, 1975 — knocking sand frog Tomopterna luganga Channing, Moyer & Dawood, 2004 Tomopterna marmorata (Peters, 1854) — marbled sand frog Tomopterna milletihorsini (Angel, 1922) Tomopterna monticola (Fischer, 1884) Tomopterna natalensis (Smith, 1849) — Natal sand frog Tomopterna tandyi Channing & Bogart, 1996 — Tandy's sand frog Tomopterna tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882) — rough sand frog Tomopterna wambensis Wasonga & Channing, 2013

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tomopterna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.