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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Least Concern |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
It lives and breeds in leaf litter in coastal forest and thicket, and adjacent grasslands. It is also very adaptable and lives in gardens, parks, and alien tree plantations. Breeding is by direct development and takes place during spring and summer, with calling commencing immediately after rain (Channing 2001). Males can be heard calling from amongst the leaf litter throughout the day and night during wet weather. Clutches of between 11–30 eggs are laid in damp leaf litter and develop directly into froglets which hatch and leave the nest after approximately four weeks (Wager 1986). Not much else is known about the species.
Range:
This species is endemic to the coastal forest patches of the east coast of South Africa occurring from Port Edward in the Eastern Cape province, north through KwaZulu-Natal, up to the Mozambique border. FitzSimons (1930) considered the subpopulation around Port St Johns as a new species, namely Arthroleptis wageri, which has been confirmed through a phylogenetic study on the subpopulations in southern KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, resulting in the resurrection of this name (Tolley et al. 2018) and the removal of these records from this species. The species has not been recorded from Mozambique, but it might occur there. It occurs at elevations from sea level, inland to up to 1,000 m asl and has an estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) of 66,077 km2.
Conservation:
Conservation Actions In-Place
It occurs in several protected areas including the Hluleka Nature Reserve right at the most southern end of it's distribution (Venter and Conradie 2015).
It occurs in several protected areas including the Hluleka Nature Reserve right at the most southern end of it's distribution (Venter and Conradie 2015).