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title: "Müller's Clawed Frog"
description: "Xenopus muelleri — Płazy. Müller's platanna (Xenopus muelleri), also known as Müller's clawed frog, is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/muller-s-clawed-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Müller's Clawed Frog

> Xenopus muelleri — Płazy. Müller's platanna (Xenopus muelleri), also known as Müller's clawed frog, is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

- Scientific name: *Xenopus muelleri*
- Category: `amphibians` (Płazy)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 367
- Wikidata: [Q2705074](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2705074)
- iNaturalist taxon: [25459](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/25459)

## Names

- en: Müller's Clawed Frog
- de: Müllers Krallenfrosch
- nl: Muller's Platanna

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (93), TZ (49), MW (28), MZ (21), BW (19), KE (15), ZW (15), ZM (8)

## Summary

Müller's platanna (Xenopus muelleri), also known as Müller's clawed frog, is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCller%27s_platanna

## Photo

![Müller's Clawed Frog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/muller-s-clawed-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marius Burger · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68518245

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/muller-s-clawed-frog?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).