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Conraua goliath ゴライアスガエル🐸

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SpeciesAnuraConrauidae
Amphibians

🐸Goliath frog

Conraua goliath (Boulenger, 1906)

The goliath frog, otherwise known commonly as the giant slippery frog and the goliath bullfrog, is a species of frog in the family Conrauidae. The goliath frog is the largest living frog. Specimens can reach up to about 45 centimetres (18 in) in snout–vent length and 4.5 kilograms (9.9 lb) in weight. This species has a relatively small habitat range in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Its numbers are dwindling due to habitat destruction, collection for food, and the pet trade.

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Also called
Giant Slippery Frog
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.25 kg
Body length
0.32 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.9 years
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Body mass
3.25 kg
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

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

Maximum lifespan
5.9 yearsrecord 5.9 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
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
3.2 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 Goliath frog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyConrauidae
  6. ›genusConraua
  7. ›speciesConraua goliath
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. superfamilyRanoidea
  4. genusConraua
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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. genusConraua
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Closest relative on this site
🐸 Marsh frog — last shared an ancestor ≈ 120 million years ago.
In other languages
ضفدع جبار (ar), Conraua goliath (pt), Goliat płochliwy (pl), צפרדע גוליית (he), Лягушка-голиаф (ru), Conraua goliath (fr) … and 21 more languages
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Conraua goliath ゴライアスガエルGoliath Frog (Conraua goliath) in CameroonMuseu de Cultures del Món.
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