Ptychadena tellinii

Ptychadena tellinii
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ptychadenidae
Genus:	Ptychadena
Species:	P. tellinii
Binomial name
	Ptychadena tellinii; (Peracca, 1904)
Synonyms
	Phrynobatrachus tellinii Peracca, 1904; Ptychadena schubotzi (Sternfeld, 1917); Rana cornii Scortecci, 1929;

Ptychadena tellinii is a species of frog in the family Ptychadenidae. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, possibly Benin, possibly Chad, possibly Guinea, possibly Liberia, and possibly Sudan.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, rural gardens, and ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

C. Michael Hogan & J. Manalel. 2013. Ptychadena tellinii. ed. B. Zimkus. African Amphibians Lifedesk
M.-O. Rödel & M. Largen. 2004. Ptychadena tellinii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.

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