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Pipidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Amphibia › Anura › Pipidae

Pipa pipa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pipa pipa, the Surinam toad, is a strictly aquatic South American frog famous for carrying developing young on its mother’s back.

Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802)

Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog, is an aquatic frog widely used as a vertebrate model organism in biological research.

Xenopus muelleri (Peters, 1844)

Müller's clawed frog (Xenopus muelleri) is distinguished by a longer subocular tentacle and occupies a wide range of habitats preferring lower, warmer areas where overlapping with X. laevis.

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