Red-Banded Rubber Frog

Phrynomantis bifasciatus

Summary 5

The Banded Rubber Frog (Phrynomantis bifasciatus) is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 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, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland,...

Range description 6

This species ranges from extreme southern Somalia and from Lake Baringo in the Kenyan Rift Valley, south through Tanzania and eastern and southern Democratic Republic of Congo to western Angola, northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, northeastern South Africa and Swaziland. It also occurs on the islands of Zanzibar and Mafia. It occurs from sea level up to at least 50-1,450 m asl.

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  1. (c) Bernard DUPONT, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/7006413475/
  2. (c) 2007 Frank Teigler, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=227708&one=T
  3. (c) 2014 Simon J. Tonge, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=591686&one=T
  4. (c) 2014 Simon J. Tonge, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=591687&one=T
  5. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrynomantis_bifasciatus
  6. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34646407

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