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title: "Crowned bullfrog"
description: "Hoplobatrachus occipitalis — Amphibien. The crowned bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus occipitalis) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/crowned-bullfrog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Crowned bullfrog

> Hoplobatrachus occipitalis — Amphibien. The crowned bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus occipitalis) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.

- Scientific name: *Hoplobatrachus occipitalis*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibien)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald), `freshwater` (See & Fluss), `savanna` (Savanne)
- iNaturalist observations: 775
- Wikidata: [Q2243502](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2243502)
- iNaturalist taxon: [26261](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/26261)

## Names

- en: Crowned bullfrog
- es: Rana Toro Coronada
- nl: Crowned Bullfrog

## Countries with the most observations

BJ (53), NG (53), GH (50), KE (34), SN (34), AO (29), GM (29), UG (23), LR (22), TZ (21), CD (19), CM (14)

## Summary

The crowned bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus occipitalis) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
It is found in the Sub-Saharan Africa (Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, and Zambia).
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowned_bullfrog

## Photo

![Crowned bullfrog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/crowned-bullfrog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marius Burger · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/319915448

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/crowned-bullfrog?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).