🐸Desert rain frog
사막비개구리(Desert rain frog)는 비개구리과에 속한 개구리이다. 남아프리카 공화국과 나미비아의 해안가 사막에 서식하고 있다. 소형 양서류이며 주 먹이는 다른 동물의 배설물 속에 들어있는 딱정벌레와 같은 애벌레이다. 낮 동안은 바다에서 불어오는 안개를 머금고 축축한 모래 사구 속 10~20cm 깊이에 숨어있다. 밤이 되면 먹을 것을 찾아 언덕 주위를 돌아다닌다. 현 시점에서 서식지 파괴 위험에 처해 있으며 국제자연보호연맹(IUCN)은 이 개구리를 ‘취약종’으로 분류하고 있다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2026.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.05 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Desert rain frog
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.05 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
DietarthropodsAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Not recorded for Desert rain frog yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderAnura
- ›familyBrevicipitidae
- ›genusBreviceps
- ›speciesBreviceps macrops
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- familyBrevicipitidae
- genusBreviceps
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- suborderNeobatrachia
- superfamilyMicrohyloidea
- familyBrevicipitidae
- genusBreviceps
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