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De Witte's clawed frog

Xenopus wittei Tinsley, Kobel & Fischberg, 1979

LCLeast Concernfrogs and toads

The de witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei) is a species in the family Pipidae, order Anura. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

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Quick facts about the de witte's clawed frog

Weight
Not recorded
Length
up to 4.7 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
arthropodssrc for Main food
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Reproduction
Eggssrc for Reproduction
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the de witte's clawed frog live?

Not recorded

What is the de witte's clawed frog?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

De Witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, water storage areas, ponds, and canals and ditches.

It is named in honor of the Belgian herpetologist Gaston-François de Witte (1897–1980).

From the Wikipedia article “De Witte's clawed frog” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De_Witte%27s_clawed_frog&oldid=1314143417), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the de witte's clawed frog endangered?

The de witte's clawed frog is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the de witte's clawed frog classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAmphibia
  4. orderAnura
  5. familyPipidae
  6. genusXenopus
  7. SpeciesXenopus wittei Tinsley, Kobel & Fischberg, 1979
Other names and names in other languages (3)
  • Witte's clawed frogEnglish
  • drápatka WitteovaCzech
  • Зеленоватая шпорцевая лягушкаRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the de witte's clawed frog

Other species in the same genus Xenopus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the de witte's clawed frog endangered?

The de witte's clawed frog is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What does the de witte's clawed frog eat?

Its recorded main food is arthropods.

What kind of animal is the de witte's clawed frog?

The de witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei) belongs to the family Pipidae in the order Anura.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

  • AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits · CC BY 4.0 · v1
    Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5
  • Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
    Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
  • Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
    Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
  • Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
    Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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APA

CreatureData. (2026). De Witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/de-wittes-clawed-frog

MLA

“De Witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/de-wittes-clawed-frog.

BibTeX
@misc{de_wittes_clawed_frog_2026,
  title = {De Witte's clawed frog (Xenopus wittei)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/de-wittes-clawed-frog},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}