Weidholz's Banana Frog
Afrixalus weidholzi
Summary 2
Afrixalus weidholzi is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. Its common name is Weidholz's banana frog. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, possibly Burkina Faso, possibly Central African Republic, possibly Chad, possibly Guinea, possibly Guinea-Bissau, possibly Liberia, possibly Sudan, and possibly Togo.
Description 3
A small (18–23 mm) Afrixalus from the savannas of West Africa to north-eastern R. D. Congo with a whitish to yellow dorsum and a thin dark vertebral line, at least on the hindpart of the body. A broader dark lateral stripe from tip of snout to groin present. This is the only small Afrixalus in the western and central African savanna with such markings.
Voice: The calling site seems to be dense, rather low grass growing on soil flooded by a few centimetres of water. The species is very inconspicuous and does not occur in large numbers. The voice is a quiet high-pitched buzzing. The call consists of a succession of figures, 43–45 per second with an indistinct frequency-intensity maximum at about 4000–4500 cps.
This account was taken from "Treefrogs of Africa" by Arne Schiøtz with kind permission from Edition Chimaira publishers, Frankfurt am Main.
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- (c) Christian Artuso, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Christian Artuso
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrixalus_weidholzi
- (c) AmphibiaWeb © 2000-2015 The Regents of the University of California, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/34265713
