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SpeciesAnuraPipidae
Amphibians

🐸African clawed frog

Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802)

非洲爪蟾（學名：Xenopus laevis），又名光滑爪蟾、非洲爪蛙，简称爪蟾，是南非的一種水生青蛙，是一種重要的模式生物。牠們可以長達12厘米，頭部及身體扁平，沒有外耳或舌頭。其後腳上有3趾短爪，可能是用來挖泥來躲避掠食者。 非洲爪蟾廣泛分佈在非洲大部份地區，另有一些被引入到北美洲、南美洲及歐洲。

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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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