Mababe puddle frog (Frogs of South Africa)

Mababe puddle frog

Phrynobatrachus mababiensis

Summary ³

Phrynobatrachus mababiensis is a species of frog in the Petropedetidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Ethiopia, possibly Sudan, and possibly Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes,...

Range description ⁴

This species ranges very widely in eastern and southern Africa from northern Tanzania south to eastern South Africa, west to Namibia and Angola. There is an isolated record from Isiolo in Kenya, northeast of mount Kenya. Due to taxonomic uncertainties, the northern limits of the distribution are unclear. The species might extend even as far as Ethiopia and South Sudan. Records of Phrynobatrachus parvulus from Uganda (Kibale Forest (Vonesh 2001), Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (Drewes and Vindum 1994)), and Kampala might refer to this species(M. Pickersgill pers. comm.).