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<\/a>African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis<\/em>). African clawed frogs are sold in lots of pet stores as an aquarium pet, but they should not be confused with the African dwarf frog<\/a> which is a completely different species. African clawed frogs are fully aquatic and spend their entire lives in the water.<\/p>\n Various frogs of the Xenopus genus are used for a variety of biological and medical research. African clawed frogs are aquatic frog from Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[56,65,12,14,57,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This specimen was photographed in the Toronto Zoo<\/a> but most aquarium stores sell it as a pet.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
\nAfrican clawed frogs are also eaten in some African countries.
\nAfrican clawed frogs are not endangered, quite the contrary they have become invasive species and they are considered to be pests in various parts of the USA and Europe.<\/p>\nFurther Readings:<\/h4>\n
\nThe article entitled Xenopus<\/a> on Wikipedia — about the use of these frogs in medical research.
\nAfrican Clawed Frog<\/a>.
\nAs a pet: The African Clawed Frog<\/a> (Xenopus laevis).
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