Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 9:52 pm
Please ID this frog for me. We saw it in the hide at Rathlogo Dam in Pilanesberg.
stfit's this one!
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Amphibians Identification
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Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:52 am
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 12:33 pm
I wanted to say it is like mine... but not sure at all 
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:07 pm
Thanks very much Toko. I appreciate your ID.
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:14 pm
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
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
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
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
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:28 pm
welcome Tadrisa
nice and interesting sighting
nice and interesting sighting
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:53 pm
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
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:37 am
Hello, Tadrisa!
Interesting!
Interesting!
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 12:49 pm
Quite a pretty frog. 
Re: Amphibians Identification
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 5:21 pm
@___@ 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.