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Cape caco

species of amphibian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ305650 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cape caco or Cape dainty frog (Cacosternum capense) is a species of frog in the family Pyxicephalidae.

It is endemic to South Africa.

Its natural habitats are Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, and canals and ditches.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cape caco” is species of amphibian. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cape, caco and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cape, caco and species is the immediate research focus.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q305650. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cape caco” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.