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African Clawed Frog — printable fact sheet
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African Clawed Frog
Xenopus laevis
Xenopus laevis is a frog built for a life entirely in water: it has no tongue, no eardrum and no visible ears, and it shovels food into its mouth with its hands. Along its flanks run rows of stitch-like sensory organs — a lateral line retained into adulthood, which is unusual fo…
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- African Clawed Frogs were once widely used in human pregnancy tests because their hormones cause them to lay eggs when exposed to a pregnant woman's urine.
- Xenopus eggs are large, hardy and develop outside the mother, which made this frog one of the founding model organisms of developmental biology; its embryos have flown on the Space Shuttle. Feral populations descended from escaped or dumped laboratory and pet animals now live in California, Chile, Wales and elsewhere. Because it has no tongue, it cannot catch anything on land, and a Xenopus removed from water is nearly helpless.
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