Natal Spiny Reed Frog

A small Afrixalus (males to 20 mm, females to 25 mm) from open vegetation in coastal KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa. Voice a buzzing. Dorsum dark with a pair of broad light dorsolateral bands from eye to groin. The pattern is rather constant. Black asperities on back with a concentration on the head and the bulbous snout. Ventrum whitish, gular disc dark yellow. Sympatric with A. delicatus, which has a pointed snout without black asperities. Subspecies. – Pickersgill has established a subspecies, A. s. intermedius, for what was formerly regarded as the more north-easterly populations of A. knysnae. This form is intermediate between A. knysnae and A. s. spinifrons in most characters and it would seem as if a distinction between them at species level is unnecessary. This account was taken from "Treefrogs of Africa" by Arne Schiøtz with kind permission from Edition Chimaira (http://www.chimaira.de/) publishers, Frankfurt am Main.

KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Coast, South Africa.

Males call from emergent vegetation, often favouring plants with long leaves suitable for nest construction. High density choruses are common. The voice is a short zip on a rising note and a long buzzing (up to 5.2 sec) with a frequency-intensity maximum at about 4000 cps, and a rate of about 30 per second. The eggs are placed in a glued leaf above or below water with a clutch size of 10 to 50. The tadpoles are up to 32 mm in length with a tooth formula of 0/0.

Afrixalus spinifrons és una espècie de granota que viu a Sud-àfrica i, possiblement també, a Lesotho.

Es troba amenaçada d'extinció per la pèrdua del seu hàbitat natural.

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Afrixalus spinifrons Afrixalus generoko animalia da. Anfibioen barruko Hyperoliidae familian sailkatuta dago, Anura ordenan.

The Natal Banana Frog (Afrixalus spinifrons) là một loài ếch thuộc họ Hyperoliidae. Loài này có ở Nam Phi và có thể cả Lesotho. Môi trường sống tự nhiên của chúng là rừng ôn đới, vùng cây bụi ôn đới, đầm nước, đầm nước ngọt có nước theo mùa, đất canh tác, vườn nông thôn, ao, và kênh đào và mương rãnh. Chúng hiện đang bị đe dọa vì mất môi trường sống.