African clawed frog

Read more about the article Hybridisation, Competition and Predation: threats to one species of Xenopus from another
The small Cape platanna, Xenopus gilli, is Endangered in its small range in the Western Cape (Photo credit: John Measey)
2017 / News

Hybridisation, Competition and Predation: threats to one species of Xenopus from another

The most recent assessment suggests that the Cape platanna is Endangered, but that instead the decline being fuelled by habitat loss, it is now the threat from hybridisation, competition and predation by the African clawed frog.

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3 May 2017
Read more about the article The removal of a sister species improves the status of an Endangered species
Andre de Villers taking measurements and photos of Xenopus laevis and Xenopus gilli at research sites in Kleinmond and Cape of Good Hope (Table Mountain National Park)
2016 / News

The removal of a sister species improves the status of an Endangered species

When humans change the habitat of a certain species, another species can invade the habitat of that species. This was the case when the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), which thrives in artificial water-bodies, was able to invade the habitat of the Cape platanna (Xenopus gilli) as a result of new permanent artificial water-bodies constructed in their habitat.

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1 March 2016