Tomopterna

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Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Cacosterninae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus		Family Pyxicephalidae Scientific name Tomopterna Higher classification True frog Order Frog

Lower classifications Common sand frog, Natal sand frog

Phyllomedusa tomopterna tiger leg monkey frog

Tomopterna (common names: sand frogs, burrowing frogs, Old World bullfrogs) is a genus of frogs from sub-Saharan Africa.

There are 15 species in the genus:

Tomopterna cryptotis (Boulenger, 1907) — common sand frog

Tomopterna damarensis Dawood & Channing, 2002

Tomopterna delalandii (Tschudi, 1838) — Delalande's sand frog

Tomopterna elegans (Calabresi, 1927)

Tomopterna gallmanni Wasonga & Channing, 2013

Tomopterna kachowskii Nikolskii, 1900

Tomopterna krugerensis Passmore & Carruthers, 1975 — knocking sand frog

Tomopterna luganga Channing, Moyer & Dawood, 2004

Tomopterna marmorata (Peters, 1854) — marbled sand frog

Tomopterna milletihorsini (Angel, 1922)

Tomopterna monticola (Fischer, 1884)

Tomopterna natalensis (Smith, 1849) — Natal sand frog

Tomopterna tandyi Channing & Bogart, 1996 — Tandy's sand frog

Tomopterna tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882) — rough sand frog

Tomopterna wambensis Wasonga & Channing, 2013

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