Anura
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This taxon is known only from the non-specific type locality of "Cordofan", which is in modern-day Sudan, and not in Egypt (Baha El Din pers. comm.).
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: data deficient
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Other Physical Features: ectothermic ; bilateral symmetry
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Population
Population Trend
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Habitat and Ecology
Systems
- Freshwater
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Major Threats
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Animal / pathogen
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infects Anura
Animal / rests in
encapsulated cystacanth of Centrorhynchus aluconis rests inside mesentery of Anura
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Conservation Actions
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Anura is prey of:
Thamnophis
Crocodylus niloticus
Falconiformes
Testudines
Serpentes
Gavialis gangeticus
Salvelinus fontinalis
Based on studies in:
Canada: Manitoba (Grassland)
Malawi (River)
Africa, Crocodile Creek, Lake Nyasa (Lake or pond)
Russia (Agricultural)
Malaysia (Swamp)
Canada: Ontario (River)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- G. Fryer, The trophic interrelationships and ecology of some littoral communities of Lake Nyasa, Proc. London Zool. Soc. 132:153-229, from p. 219 (1959).
- N. N. Smirnov, Food cycles in sphagnous bogs, Hydrobiologia 17:175-182, from p. 179 (1961).
- T. Mizuno and J. I. Furtado, Food chain. In: Tasek Bera, J. I. Furtado and S. Mori, Eds. (Junk, The Hague, Netherlands, 1982), pp. 357-359, from p. 358.
- G. Fryer, 1957. The trophic interrelationships and ecology of some littoral communities of Lake Nyasa with special reference to the fishes, and a discussion of the evolution of a group of rock-frequenting Cichlidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 132:153-281, f
- W. E. Ricker, 1934. An ecological classification of certain Ontario streams. Univ. Toronto Studies, Biol. Serv. 37, Publ. Ontario Fish. Res. Lab. 49:7-114, from pp. 105-106.
- R. D. Bird, Biotic communities of the Aspen Parkland of central Canada, Ecology, 11:356-442, from p. 383 (1930).
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Rana cordofana is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is endemic to Sudan.
Its natural habitats are freshwater marshes and intermittent freshwater marshes.
Sources[edit]
- Cox, N. & Stuart, S.N. 2004. Rana cordofana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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