AFRICAN FROGS

• FROGS AND REPTILES OF THE IMPENETRABLE FOREST
  The Impenetrable Forest, now Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) is located in extreme southwest Uganda, only a few kilometers from the Congo border and about 25 kilometers north of the Virunga Volcanos.

• FROGS OF THE ARABUKO-SOKOKE FOREST
  The Arabuko-Sokoke is Kenya's last remaining coastal forest. It is but 400 km2 in area and located approximately 60 miles north of the port of Mombasa. During the rains, the study area is inundated, pools form some of which can be up to 70 cm deep providing breeding sites for over 20 species of frogs.

• DISCOVERY OF A NEW SERENGETI TREEFROG
  The Serengeti is probably the most intensively studied ecosystem in all of Africa.With over 120 species, the highly variable genus Hyperolius is the dominant group within the African treefrog family, Hyperoliidae.

• GULF OF GUINEA TREEFROGS [158 KB PDF]
  Gulf of Guinea Expedition (2001) I. The Taxonomic Status of the Genus Nesionixalus Perret, 1976 (Anura: Hyperoliidae), Treefrogs of São Tomé and Príncipe, with Comments on the Genus Hyperolius.

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