Uganda clawed frog

Short description: Species of amphibian

Uganda clawed frog

Conservation status

Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Amphibia
Order:  | Anura
Family:  | Pipidae
Genus:  | Xenopus
Species:  |

X. ruwenzoriensis

Binomial name
Xenopus ruwenzoriensis

Tymowska & Fischberg, 1973

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. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ 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.

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