African clawed frog
noun1
A clawed frog found in southern Africa, Xenopus laevis, that has some properties very useful for genetics.
- Heaven knows what led him to do it, but Hogben found that if you injected an African clawed frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, within hours it would lay eggs.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 283:
- Synonyms
- xenopus, African clawed toad, platanna, common platanna