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Xenopus Wagler, 1827
Taxonomic Serial No.: 173548

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Silurana Gray, 1864
		Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829
		Tremeropugus Smith, 1831
	Common Name(s):	Clawed Frogs [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2019

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Amphibia – amphibiens, anfíbio, Amphibians
	Order	Anura – Frogs, perereca, rã, sapo, crapauds, grenouilles, Toads
	Family	Pipidae Gray, 1825 – Tongueless Frogs
	Genus	Xenopus Wagler, 1827 – Clawed Frogs
		Direct Children:
	Species	Xenopus allofraseri Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvozdík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley et al., 2015
	Species	Xenopus amieti Kobel, du Pasquier, Fischberg and Gloor, 1980
	Species	Xenopus andrei Loumont, 1983
	Species	Xenopus borealis Parker, 1936
	Species	Xenopus boumbaensis Loumont, 1983
	Species	Xenopus calcaratus Peters, 1875
	Species	Xenopus clivii Peracca, 1898
	Species	Xenopus epitropicalis Fischberg, Colombelli and Picard, 1982
	Species	Xenopus eysoole Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvozdík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley et al., 2015
	Species	Xenopus fischbergi Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvozdík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley et al., 2015
	Species	Xenopus fraseri Boulenger, 1905
	Species	Xenopus gilli Rose and Hewitt, 1927
	Species	Xenopus itombwensis Evans, Carter, Tobias, Kelley, Hanner and Tinsley, 2008
	Species	Xenopus kobeli Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvozdík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley et al., 2015
	Species	Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802) – African Clawed Frog, Rana-de garras africana
	Species	Xenopus largeni Tinsley, 1995
	Species	Xenopus lenduensis Evans, Greenbaum, Kusamba, Carter, Tobias, Mendel and Kelley, 2011
	Species	Xenopus longipes Loumont and Kobel, 1991
	Species	Xenopus mellotropicalis Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvozdík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley et al., 2015
	Species	Xenopus muelleri (Peters, 1844)
	Species	Xenopus parafraseri Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvozdík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley et al., 2015
	Species	Xenopus petersii Bocage, 1895
	Species	Xenopus poweri Hewitt, 1927
	Species	Xenopus pygmaeus Loumont, 1986
	Species	Xenopus ruwenzoriensis Tymowska and Fischberg, 1973
	Species	Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864)
	Species	Xenopus vestitus Laurent, 1972
	Species	Xenopus victorianus Ahl, 1924
	Species	Xenopus wittei Tinsley, Kobel and Fischberg, 1979

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Roy W. McDiarmid
	Notes:	U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
	Reference for:	Xenopus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference v6, database (version 6.0)
	Acquired:	2019
	Notes:	Frost, Darrel R. 2019. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6 (12 September, 2019). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
	Reference for:	Xenopus

	Source:	Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)
	Acquired:	2000
	Notes:	CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)
	Reference for:	Xenopus

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Xenopus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Frank T. Burbrink, et al. / Moriarty, John J., ed.
	Publication Date:	2008
	Article/Chapter Title:	Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, With Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, Sixth Ed.
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Herpetological Circular No. 37
	Page(s):	1-84
	Publisher:	Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-916984-74-5
	Notes:	Available free as a PDF at http://ssarherps.org/pages/HerpCommNames.php
	Reference for:	Xenopus, Clawed Frogs [English]

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Jonathan A. Campbell, et al. / Moriarty, John J., ed.
	Publication Date:	2000
	Article/Chapter Title:	Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Herpetological Circular, no. 29
	Page(s):	iv + 82
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-916984-54-0
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Xenopus, Clawed Frogs [English]

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Jonathan A. Campbell, K. de Queiroz, et al. / Moriarty, John J., ed.
	Publication Date:	2000
	Article/Chapter Title:	Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Herpetological Circular, no. 29
	Page(s):	iv + 82
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-916984-54-0
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Clawed Frogs[English]

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:	Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17
	Page(s):	iv + 73
	Publisher:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History
	Publication Place:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-911239-42-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Xenopus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Frost, Darrel R.
	Publication Date:	1997
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Amphibian Species of the World, A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second edition
	Page(s):
	Publisher:	Electronic manuscript supplied by compiler
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, U.S.A.
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Xenopus

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