These are some of the frogs I have found in KZN, South Africa, this season.
Painted Reed Frog (Hyperolius marmoratus taeniatus)
Tinker Reed Frog (Hyperolius tuberilinguis)
Waterlily Frog (Hyperolis pusilis)
Bronze Caco (Cacosternum nanum)
Greater Leaf-folding Frog (Afrixalus fornasinii)
Delicate Leaf-folding Frog (Afrixalus delicatus)
Natal Tree Frog (Leptopelis natalensis)
Southern Foam-Nest Frog (Chiromantis xerampelina)
Common Platanna (Xenopus laevis)
African or Edible Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus edulis)
Banded Rubber Frogs (Phrynomantis bifasciatus) mating
Mottled Shovel-nosed Frog (Hemisus marmoratus)
Snoring Puddle Frog (Phrynobatrachus natalensis)
Dwarf Puddle Frog (Phrynobatrachus mababiensis)
Mascarene Grass Frog (Ptychadena mascareniensis)
Broad-banded Grass Frog (Ptychadena mossambica)
Sharp-nosed Grass Frog (Ptychadena oxyrhynchus)
Common River Frog (Amietia angolensis)
Crab eating a Bubbling Kassina (Kassina Senegalensis)
Guttural Toad (Amietophrynus gutturalis)
Thank You for sharing
These are great !
I love the Natal
Current Collection
Dendrobates leucomelas - standard morph
Dendrobates auratus “Costa Rican Green Black"
Dendrobates auratus "Pena Blanca"
Dendrobates tinctorius “New River”
Dendrobates tinctorius "Green Sipaliwini"
Dendrobates tinctorius “Powder Blue"
Dendrobates tinctorius "French Guiana Dwarf Cobalt"
Phyllobates terribilis “Mint”
Phyllobates terribilis "Orange"
Phyllobates bicolor "Uraba"
Oophaga pumilio "Black Jeans"
Oophaga pumilio "Isla Popa"
Oophaga pumilio "Bastimentos"
Oophaga pumilio “Mimbitimbi”
Oophaga pumilio "Rio Colubre"
Oophaga pumilio "Red Frog Beach”
Oophaga pumilio "Rio Branco"
Oophaga pumilio “Valle del Rey”
Oophaga pumilio "BriBri"
Oophaga pumilio "El Dorado"
Oophaga pumilio "Cristobal"
Oophaga pumilio "Rambala"
Oophaga “Vicentei” (blue)
Oophaga sylvatica "Paru"
Oophaga sylvatica "Pata Blanca"
Oophaga histrionica “Redhead”
Oophaga histrionica "Blue"
Oophaga lehmanni "Red"
Oophaga histrionica "Tado"
Ranitomeya variabilis "Southern"
Ranitomeya imitator "Varadero"
Ranitomeya sirensis "Lower Ucayali"
Ranitomeya vanzolinii
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Hi Nick, welcome to Frog Forum Great album of photos you have. South African amphibians have always interested me. I worked at a zoo and cared for a variety of African and Madagascar frogs. There is another FF member from KZN (bugboy99). World like to hear more stories from the field.
Terry Gampper
Nebraska Herpetological Society
“If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.”
--- Adrian Forsyth
very cool. thanks for sharing Nick. excellent pics. i love the one of the banded rubber frogs. i have one myself, very cool frogs
1.0.0 Oophaga Pumilio 'Black Jeans'
0.0.10 Phyllobates Vittatus
0.0.3 Phyllobates Terribilis 'Mint'
0.0.3 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Patricia'
0.0.5 Dendrobates Leucomelas
0.0.2 Dendrobates Tinctorius 'Powder Blue'
0.0.2 Ranitomeya Variabilis 'southern'
0.0.3 Epipedobates Anthonyi 'zarayunga'
1.2.0 Phyllobates bicolor
0.0.3 Dendrobates tinctorius 'azureus'
0.0.1 Avicularia Avicularia
0.0.1 Gramastola porteri
0.2.0 Canines
1.0.0 Tabby/Maine Coon Mix
2.1.0 Genetics Experiments
0.1.0 Bed Bully
Thanks, glad you like the photos.
Hello Nick, and welcome
I like your photos. I've tried the whole photography thing myself, but I'm more interested in the rearing of amphibians.
I don't know if you are interested in crabs, but the crab eating your Kassina, is a species of Potamonautes(African Freshwater Crab), probably P. warreni.
Sincerely,
Joh
Hi Joh
Thanks a lot! Are there many different species of freshwater crabs in KZN?
Great pics! I used to own Kassina maculata. Its a nice frog. chocolate brown with black circles and orange-red on the legs.
Wow!!! Gorgeous photos!!! I wish I could do more field work like that. It never fails to amaze me how many beautiful species of Frogs and Toads that are out there in different countries. Thank you for sharing!!
Hi Nick, I believe that there are 8 species of Potamonautes in SA. Not sure, but it is somewhere between 8 and 12 species. However, P. warreni and P. sidneyi are most common in KZN, and P. sidneyi has a white stripe over its carapace, so I'm guessing that it is a P. warreni. This is an interesting genus of crabs, because it fills the niche that is filled by crayfish in the New World, and it is also the only genus of freshwater crab found in South Africa.
Thanks
I saw Kassina maculata recently, unfortunately I didn't get a photo!
Joh, I'll look a bit more carefully when I see a crab now, and try to identify it!
Please do! Whereabouts in KZN are you located? You might live close by.
I live in Durban. I see you're in Northern KZN, lot's of frogs there! Most of the frog photos I posted were in Hluhluwe, on a game farm called Hakuna Matata. Great spot.
Oh, I've never actually been to Hluhluwe, but I hear that its quite interesting. Most of my frog and toad tads, are just caught in random places with lots of water. There's a nice little stream nearby, and then the opportunistic breeders breed in the puddles. I caught some Ptychadena tads in a puddle just the other day.
Thanks for the photos, I hope you feel very welcome here, and become a regular contributor in our frogging community.
Thanks I'll try to post more!
Hi Nick. Beautiful Frogs! Great photography! It's nice to see frogs I've not ever been introduced to. So pretty. I'd love to have one of each .
Nice to meet you and welcome. Thank you for sharing .
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P.S. You should make a calendar or post cards, truly .
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Thanks Heather I made a calendar for family members with these photos!
Just thought I would add this photo to the post. It's two male Greater Leaf-folding Frogs (Afrixalus fornasinii) pushing each other off a leaf! They weren't very close so I had to zoom in, that's why the photo is a bit blurred. I had never seen this kind of behavior before.
Awe .
Any chance you'll be selling calendars in the future?
You are so lucky to have so many pretty species near by.
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