Afrixalus fornasini
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hyperoliidae |
| Genus: | Afrixalus |
| Species: | A. fornasini |
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Afrixalus fornasini (Bianconi, 1849) |
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Afrixalus fornasini is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family and is native to Africa. Its common name is Fornasini's spiny reed frog or the Greater Leaf-folding Frog
It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa and possibly Swaziland. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, water storage areas, and ponds.
It is threatened in some parts of its range by habitat loss, but in general it is not very rare and in some places it is common.
Tadpole
Tadpole developing into a froglet
Tadpole/ froglet taken out of the water
Adult with throat-sack extended for mating call
Adult on the leaf of a Giant Sedge (Cyperus dives)
On a leaf of Jatropha curcas
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