Summary ¹

The mountain caco or small dainty frog (Cacosternum parvum) is a species of frog in the Petropedetidae family, found in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, plantations, ponds, and canals and ditches.

Range description ²

This species is restricted to high-altitude habitats above 1,200 m asl up to at least 2,100 m asl in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, occurring along the Kwa-Zulu Natal Drakensberg escarpment, the Mpumalanga Escarpment and Wolkberg Arc. It occurs at higher altitudes than the closely related Cacosternum nanum.

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1. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacosternum_parvum
2. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34347645

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• iNat taxon page
• AMNH Amphibian Species of the World
• AmphibiaWeb
• Animal Diversity Web
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HerpMapper
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