About Phrynobatrachus mababiensis FitzSimons, 1932
Phrynobatrachus mababiensis, commonly known as the Mababe puddle frog, is a species of frog belonging to the family Phrynobatrachidae. Its confirmed distribution includes Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It has possible unconfirmed presence in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. This frog occurs most frequently in a range of habitat types: subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It also lives in rivers, swampland, permanent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, permanent freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It can successfully inhabit human-altered environments including agricultural lands, rural gardens, water storage areas, ponds, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.
