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Zaire forest tree frog

species of amphibian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ1947137 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Zaire forest tree frog (Leptopelis fenestratus) is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zaire forest tree frog” as species of amphibian. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zaire, forest and tree.

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 35-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zaire, forest and tree providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Zaire forest tree frog”, the useful work is to connect “species of amphibian” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1947137. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zaire forest tree frog” 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.