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Re: Amphibians Identification

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Please ID this frog for me. We saw it in the hide at Rathlogo Dam in Pilanesberg.

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Re: Amphibians Identification

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0/* stf


it's this one!

viewtopic.php?p=117982#p117982

^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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I wanted to say it is like mine... but not sure at all lol

^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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Toko wrote:0/* stf


it's this one!

viewtopic.php?p=117982#p117982

^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

Thanks very much Toko. I appreciate your ID.
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Hullo, I guess this is probably the right place to post this? I've been working all afternoon trying to figure out who this froggy I saw last December is. Spotted in the semi-arid Singida region of Tanzania, just north of Singida town, during the second month of rains up on a fence post a few meters off the ground
Can I just link to my iNaturalist observation? http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2786092 I guess I can direct link to the images there so people don't have to click over
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And if time passes and links break or you're on an internet connection that takes forever to load, it's a brown frog(/toad?) with a white belly and irregular black splotches/spots around the border between that brown and white and extending up onto the sides of the face (below the eyes) and on the legs/arms.
It has horizontal pupils.
Its palms and the insides of its legs are red/orange, it has toe discs, and its feet don't seem very webbed. Oh and its hind legs are pretty short, I'd say it definitely has a tibia that's less than half its body length (which was a thing in a key that I read).
It's body is pretty round, but not spherical, it's probably close to 30mm long
Gosh, reading my iNaturalist observation, I used plural, so maybe this was 2-3 frogs. I thought I just bothered it enough that it climbed up higher, but maybe not :P


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welcome Tadrisa 0/*

nice and interesting sighting ^Q^


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Re: Amphibians Identification

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0/*

I think it's one of the Hyperolius viridiflavus superspecies

Check page 178 and 180 of this field guide
http://www.cepf.net/Documents/bilingual ... e_eacf.pdf


These frogs come in hundreds of morphs and taxonomy is a big mess


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Hello, Tadrisa!

Interesting! X#X


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Quite a pretty frog. \O


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@___@ So... hyperolius taxonomy is a mess, eh? Before I started trying to ID stuff, I thought most things were already pretty known in the world, and that I was just ignorant. Looks like I've got plenty of people muddling along with me. What's to keep this guy from being a smooth skinned toad? Looks like there are some tree climbing toads too, lots of them with these distinctive horizontal pupils.


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