Delicate Spiny Reed Frog
Afrixalus delicatus
Summary 3
The Pickersgill's Banana Frog (Afrixalus delicatus) is a species of frog in the Hyperoliidae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and possibly Swaziland. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and seasonally...
Description 4
A small, slender Afrixalus (males 15—22 mm, females 16-24 mm) from the savanna in eastern Africa. Dorsal asperities normally well developed over the entire upper surfaces in males, confined to the head in females. Ventral asperities are strongest anteriorly, or confined to chest and gular disc. Above silvery to yellow with a brown lateral band with a distinct lower margin and usually with light speckles, often aggregated along the middle of the band. At its most complete the pattern consists of a pair of irregular dark stripes from the sacrum, converging between the eyes as a headspot. Tibia is pale with a dark, oblique transverse band that bisects the pale area completely.
Afrixalus delicatus as referred to here, consists of Schiotz's (1999) combined treatment of A. delicatus and A. brachycnemis.
Updated by A. Schiøtz, 2008.
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