🦋 Family

Brevicipitidae

8 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Amphibia › Anura › Brevicipitidae

Breviceps namaquensis, the Namaqua rain frog, is a small fossorial frog native to the succulent karoo biome with direct development.

Breviceps rosei (Rose's rain frog) is a subterranean brevicipitid frog endemic to south-western coastal South Africa's sandveld.

The mountain rain frog (Breviceps montanus) is a Brevicipitidae frog endemic to South Africa, threatened by habitat loss.

Breviceps verrucosus, the plaintive rough rain frog, lives in southern Africa and is threatened by habitat loss.

Breviceps gibbosus, the Cape rain frog, is a burrowing endemic South African frog in the Brevicipitidae family.

Breviceps adspersus, the common rain frog, is a burrowing southern African frog that cannot jump or swim and hatches directly into froglets.

Breviceps mossambicus, the Mozambique rain frog, is a stout African frog found across central and southern open habitats.

Breviceps fuscus is a small burrowing frog native to the Cape Fold Belt of South Africa with a distinctive avocado-like shape.

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