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SpeciesAnuraPipidae
Amphibians

🐸African clawed frog

Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802)

아프리카발톱개구리(학명: Xenopus laevis)는 남아프리카가 원 서식지인 개구리목 발톱개구리과의 양서류이다. 성체가 되어도 물속에서 생활하며, 호흡은 폐를 통한 공기호흡을 한다. 발톱을 사용해 진흙속을 헤집고 들어가 천적으로부터 몸을 지킨다.

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Also called
Xenopus laevis, African Clawed Toad, Clawed Frog, Clawed Toad, Common Clawed Frog, Common Clawed Toad, Common Platanna, Platanna, Smooth Clawed Frog, Upland Clawed Frog
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.13 kg
Body length
0.15 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the African clawed frog

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.13 kg
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data quality: acceptable

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

Figures vary

  • 0.13 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.15 m
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
30 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

Gestation
2 days
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data quality: acceptable

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
0.1 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 clawed frog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyPipidae
  6. ›genusXenopus
  7. ›speciesXenopus laevis
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. genusXenopus
  4. subgenusXenopus subgenus Xenopus
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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. superfamilyPipoidea
  12. familyPipidae
  13. subfamilyXenopodinae
  14. genusXenopus
  15. subgenusXenopus subgenus Xenopus
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Krallenfrosch (de), klofrosk (nb), Xenopo liscio (it), granota amb ungles africana (ca), drápatka vodní (cs), Afrikansk sporefrø (da) … and 21 more languages
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