IUCN Red List Category: LC (Published 2013-06-19)
2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC
Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Amphibia | Anura | Hyperoliidae | Acanthixalus | Acanthixalus spinosus |
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This species ranges from southeastern Nigeria and southern Cameroon east to northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Kivu), and south to extreme western Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayombe). It has been recorded from Gabon, and presumed to occur in southwestern Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and the Cabinda Enclave of Angola. The species' distribution on the map includes areas the species is presumed to occur.
It lives in lowland rainforest. The frogs are arboreal and aquatic spending most of their time, and breeding, in the small bodies of water that accumulate in cavities of living and dead trees. It can survive in heavily degraded forest, providing that large trees survive.
Despite its tolerance of habitat modification, it depends on large trees with holes that collect rainwater, and is presumably affected by ongoing forest loss.
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, tolerance of a degree of habitat modification and its presumed large population.
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