Climbing toad [1] , or climbing night toad [1] ( lat. Nectophryne afra ) is a species of tailless amphibians of the genus of climbing toads ( Nectophryne ) of the family of toads (Bufonidae).
| Crawling toad |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| Squad: | Tailless amphibians |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Nectophryne afra Buchholz & Peters , 1875 |
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Least concernIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 54835 |
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West Africa from southwestern Nigeria to Equatorial Guinea and Gabon , as well as Bioko (Equatorial Guinea) and the northeast of the Democratic Congo . [2] .
Size reaches 3 cm. Head and torso are elongated, eyes are medium in size. There are suckers on the fingers, making it easy to move around the leaves of trees and even on vertical glass surfaces. They are skillful jumpers. The coloring consists of dark and light brown spots, on the sides there are pink, white or beige spots. [3] .
They live in tropical and subtropical lowland forests. Day is spent on the ground, and at night they climb trees. Avoid the sun. They feed on small invertebrates , above all, ants and other insects . [4] .
Nests are arranged in the cavities of trees containing water, where tadpoles grow. Care of the offspring is engaged in the male. [5] .
- ↑ 1 2 Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I. S. , Orlov N. L. A five-language dictionary of animal names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., 1988. - p. 35. - 10 500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. Nectophryne afra (Neopr.) . Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History (2017).
- ↑ Peters, 1875: Über die von Herrn Professor Dr. R. Buchholz in Westafrika gesammelten Amphibien . Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1875, p. 196-212 ( texte intégral ).
- ↑ Nectophryne afra Buchholz & Peters, 1875 (English) . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Date of appeal September 2017
- ↑ Amphibia Web. Nectophryne afra . Provides information on amphibian declines, natural history, conservation, and taxonomy (2017).
