For the identification of insects and other fauna and flora of South Africa.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Tinker Reed Frog (Hyperolius tuberilinguis)



A cute, small frog of about 4cm in length.
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They are found in the northern part of the east coast and distinguishes by the plain green and orange/yellow limbs.




Males have a yellow throat.





Info: Frogs and Frogging in South Africa (Vincent Carruthers & Louis du Plessis)

7 comments:

Firefly the Travel Guy said...

I love finding little frogs like this

Diane said...

I have seen similar (maybe the same) frogs in S.A., they real;y are very cute. Lovely photos. Keep well Diane

Gaelyn said...

Yet another kind of frog. Yet not a whole road full. ;)

SAPhotographs (Joan) said...

I have found a few frogs on this trip Jonker, all of them reallt small ones. They are so cute. :)

SAPhotographs (Joan) said...

Thanks Diane. Welcome back. I hope you had a lovely holiday?

SAPhotographs (Joan) said...

The ones we found on the road in Kruger I have still not been able to identify although just last night I saw something similar and want to check out more pictures of it.

ryan van huyssteen said...

That is not a reed frog.

It's a tree frog.