Talk:Xenopus

message: Should this article be merged with "African Clawed Frog"?  It's the same species and text.Pstevendactylus 04:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the African Clawed Frog is a species within the genus: Xenopus. At the moment no-one has written any articles of other speices within this genus, but someone probably will in the future. If you look at Litoria, there are about 7 articles of species within that genus. Only a few months ago there were none! --liquidGhoul 04:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: For all we know RainbowCrane has never seen a Xenopus while I've observed a living, swimming, breathing, carnivorizing specimen for 18 years.  Darwin wrote whole articles about finches based on observations that extended to mere months.  Furthermore, RainbowCrane admits that he was unable to find much information about Xenopus as pets.  Having found the first contribution to a fascinating scientific dialogue he removes it as casually as one of his forebearers might have burned the manuscript of The Origin of Species.  Oh, the humanity. . .!  (Sully Augustine BS Econ, MBA, self taught and self awarded PhD in the field of Xenopus as a Pet) 14:05, 14 August 2006
*Darwin didn't publish his findings in an encyclopedia.  He wrote The Origin of Species first, and then his findings wound up in an encyclopedia. JSarek 21:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  All referenced material started out as personal experience 

message: I removed the entire section below due to it being personal experience rather than referenced material.  I found internet sources for some information on these frogs, but not much on the keeping of them as pets. RainbowCrane 19:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pet section removed 

message: I cannot find a source, maybe someone else can, but the Xenopus is often used in animal alphabet books as X.
Not an anon anymore!!!! Yeah!!!! 18:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information Left Out 

message: Looks like the genus Silurana is a synonym for Xenopus.  I think the content of the Silurana pages ought to be merged into the Xenopus pages. 128.174.87.139 (talk) 21:45, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's not just one species of Silurana; S. tropicalis is just one of them. As far as I know, S. is currently recognized more often than not; I need to check, but if it is, I'll split the pages again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Marjanović (talk • contribs) 05:43, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge Silurana here 

message: Should the section "Key Characteristics of Xenopus" be a prose? If there is no objection I don't mind changing it to such. KimiNewt (talk) 13:09, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, good idea. Marcosk496 (talk) 13:13, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: On it. KimiNewt (talk) 18:07, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, hopefully I've done it well enough. KimiNewt (talk) 18:40, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List to prose 

message: In the Hebrew language the genus name literally means "Medical frog".[7]
Now, I can't read the source, which is in Hebrew... but... this strikes me as rather ridiculous. The word is a Greek composite, as explained at the very beginning of the article. Is the idea that it's a pun on something Hebrew? Or does the source simply say "is the medical frog"?
David Marjanović (talk) 05:42, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hebrew???