Common reed frog: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common reed frog lives – recorded in 3 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Hyperolius viridiflavus
Group	Frogs & toads
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	3 countries
Continents	Africa
Class	Amphibian
Order	Anura
Family	Hyperoliidae

Where does the common reed frog live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common reed frog in 3 countries and territories across Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the common reed frog endangered?

The common reed frog’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common reed frog?

The common reed frog (Hyperolius viridiflavus) is an amphibian in the order Anura and the family Hyperoliidae, genus Hyperolius. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common reed frog

The common reed frog (Hyperolius viridiflavus) is a species of tree frogs in the family Hyperoliidae found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, and possibly the Central African Republic, Chad, and Eritrea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, water storage areas, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common reed frog (revision 1381006613), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q2246086 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).