Uganda clawed frog

{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |date=2014 |title=Xenopus ruwenzoriensis |volume=2014 |page=e.T58180A16942495 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T58180A16942495.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Xenopus

| species = ruwenzoriensis

| authority = Tymowska & Fischberg, 1973

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The Uganda clawed frog (Xenopus ruwenzoriensis) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in Uganda and possibly the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

It is also unusual in that it is polyploid, with 12 sets of chromosomes (dodecaploidy).{{cite journal|pmid=19273062 | volume=14 | title=The fate of duplicated immunity genes in the dodecaploid Xenopus ruwenzoriensis | year=2009 | journal=Front. Biosci. | pages=177–91 | doi=10.2741/3239| last1=Pasquier | first1=Louis Du | last2=Wilson | first2=M. | last3=Sammut | first3=B. | issue=14 | doi-access=free }}