The Kihansi spray toad is a small, live bearing, insect eating toad once endemic to Tanzania. It is classified as extinct in the wild by the IUCN, surviving only in captive breeding colonies, with an estimated 6,200 individuals held mostly at the Bronx Zoo and the Toledo Zoo.
Facts
Classification
Living or Extinct Scientific NameNectophrynoides asperginis 2 Conservation Status Comparison
CITES Appendix Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Kihansi Spray Toad (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source Wikipedia: Kihansi spray toad
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Kihansi spray toad
diet-classification (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
The species is live-bearing and insectivorous.
Infobox: status2
CITES_A1
Infobox: status
EW
In Biome: Wetlands, Habitat
A number of wetlands made up the habitat of this species, all fed by spray from the Kihansi River waterfall.
View the Source2. Kihansi Spray Toad (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q2697780 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): extinct in the wild.
- Child Taxon Of: Bufonidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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