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Rickeezee · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:12 am Post subject: Identification Please

Anyone care to identify these please?
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Pollywog · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:35 am Post subject:

I hate identifying Leptopelis they are all so alike. I'm going with flavomaculatus as I think I can just make out some yellow spots on the first one.
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Rickeezee · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

I hasten to add I don't know what they are either hence asking, not a trick question Laughing

I don't have any better pictures either as these were sent to me.
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Pollywog · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject:

Here's some pics of some of the flavomacs I've had in for you to compair with: http://www.pollywog.co.uk/gallery-leptopelis_flavomaculatus.html
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Rickeezee · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks, yes they look like a candidate.
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Pollywog · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

If the frog in the first picture does have yellow spots which it looks like to me then I think that's your answer, I don't know of hand any other Leptopelis that show those spots.
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Rickeezee · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

ok thanks.
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Rickeezee · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject:

Description
A large (Males 44-50 mm, females 60-70 mm) Leptopelis from East African lowland forests. Webbing rather well-developed. Dorsum uniform green with white heels or brown with a darker triangle with its blunt apex pointing forwards. There is a dark bar between the eyes and a dark canthal line. Pectoral glands present in males. Yellow spots often present in young green specimens.L. flavomaculatus is very similar to L. vermiculatus from which it differs in ph. A. by having a uniform, not vermiculated, dorsum. It is very similar to and possibly related to L. christyi from the central forests, but christyi is smaller and normally has a more pointed dorsal triangle.
Voice. - A clack with a peculiar tonal quality. The single motif has a long duration (0.2-0.3 sec) and is made up of a number of harmonics about 300 cps. apart.

Distribution and Habitat

Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, United Republic of, Zimbabwe

A form from the rather dry, open semideciduous forest of the eastern lowlands, from the coast of Kenya to Mocambique north of the Save River. Absent from the moist evergreen forests on the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania.
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