Summary ¹

The Schilluk Ridged Frog (Ptychadena schillukorum) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes,...

Summary ²

Ptychadena schillukorum is a medium sized anuran found across a wide swath of the African Sahel from Senegal to Sudan, and extending southward into parts of east Africa; the species chiefly occurs in arid and semi-arid savanna, especially in the broad West Sudanian savanna ecoregion. A distinctive dark interorbital V-shape is present in adults.

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1. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptychadena_schillukorum
2. (c) Hogan, C.Michael, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/24819362

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• iNat taxon page
• AMNH Amphibian Species of the World
• AmphibiaWeb
• Animal Diversity Web
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