Uganda clawed frog
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Species of amphibian
| Uganda clawed frog | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pipidae |
| Genus: | Xenopus |
| Species: | X. ruwenzoriensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Xenopus ruwenzoriensis Tymowska & Fischberg, 1973
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The Uganda clawed frog (Xenopus ruwenzoriensis) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in Uganda and possibly the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
It is also unusual in that it is polyploid, with 12 sets of chromosomes (dodecaploidy).[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2014). "Xenopus ruwenzoriensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T58180A16942495. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T58180A16942495.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58180/16942495. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ↑ Pasquier, Louis Du; Wilson, M.; Sammut, B. (2009). "The fate of duplicated immunity genes in the dodecaploid Xenopus ruwenzoriensis". Front. Biosci. 14 (14): 177–91. doi:10.2741/3239. PMID 19273062.
Wikidata ☰ Q3021231 entry
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