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Spotted snout-burrower
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hemisotidae
Genus: Hemisus
Species: H. guttatus
Binomial name
Hemisus guttatus
(Rapp, 1842)

The spotted snout-burrower (Hemisus guttatus), or spotted shovelnose frog, is a species of frog in the family Hemisotidae, found in South Africa and possibly Eswatini.

Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sources

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group.; South African Frog Re-assessment Group; et al. (SA-FRoG) (2017). "Hemisus guttatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T55280A77161389. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T55280A77161389.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Hemisus guttatus


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