Spotted snout-burrower

Spotted snout-burrower
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hemisotidae
Genus:	Hemisus
Species:	H. guttatus
Binomial name
	Hemisus guttatus; (Rapp, 1842)

The spotted snout-burrower (Hemisus guttatus), or spotted shovelnose frog, is a species of frog in the family Hemisotidae, found in South Africa and possibly Swaziland.

Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sources

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, South African Frog Re-assessment Group (SA-FRoG). 2017. Hemisus guttatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T55280A77161389. http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/55280/0 Downloaded on 26 September 2017.

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[1] IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, South African Frog Re-assessment Group (SA-FRoG). 2017. Hemisus guttatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T55280A77161389. http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/55280/0 Downloaded on 26 September 2017.