Marbled snout-burrower

Marbled snout-burrower
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Hemisus marmoratus Soutpansberg, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hemisotidae
Genus:	Hemisus
Species:	H. marmoratus
Binomial name
Hemisus marmoratus (Peters, 1854)
Synonyms
Hemisus sudanensis (Steindachner, 1863)

The marbled snout-burrower (Hemisus marmoratus) is a species of frog in the Hemisotidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Burundi, possibly Mali, possibly Niger, possibly Rwanda, possibly Sierra Leone, and possibly Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, plantations, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It is also called the mottled shovelnose frog and marbled shovelnose frog.

References

• Msuya, C., Rödel, M.-O., Poynton, J.C., Minter, L., Largen, M. & Lötters, S. 2004. Hemisus marmoratus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.