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Pyxicephalus adspersus, Boston Aquarium🐸

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SpeciesAnuraPyxicephalidae
Amphibians

🐸African bullfrog

Pyxicephalus adspersus Tschudi, 1838

Der Afrikanische Ochsenfrosch (Pyxicephalus adspersus, veraltetes Synonym: Rana adspersa) wird auch Gesprenkelter Grabfrosch oder Afrikanischer Grabfrosch genannt. Es handelt sich um einen sehr großen, massigen Froschlurch, der im südlichen und südöstlichen Afrika heimisch ist. Früher wurde die Art zur Familie der Echten Frösche gezählt, zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts wurde diese Familie jedoch in mehrere Familien geteilt und die Afrikanischen Ochsenfrösche bilden eine eigene Familie unter dem wissenschaftlichen Namen Pyxicephalidae.

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Also called
Pyxicephalus adspersus, Giant Bullfrog
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.4 kg
Body length
0.24 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
45 years
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Everything we know about the African bullfrog

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Body mass
1.4 kg
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.24 m
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
45 yearsrecord 30 years · AmphiBIO
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
arthropods, vertebrates
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.4 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for African bullfrog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyPyxicephalidae
  6. ›genusPyxicephalus
  7. ›speciesPyxicephalus adspersus
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. subfamilyPyxicephalinae
  4. genusPyxicephalus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  11. suborderNeobatrachia
  12. superfamilyRanoidea
  13. subfamilyPyxicephalinae
  14. genusPyxicephalus
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Afrikaanse stierkikker (nl), Pyxicephalus adspersus (fr), Ếch yêu tinh (vi), Pyxicephalus adspersus (ca), Afrikanischer Ochsenfrosch (de), Afrikansk oxgroda (sv) … and 20 more languages
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Pyxicephalus adspersus, Boston AquariumGiant African Bullfrog imported from iNaturalist photo 15596236
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