#semnodactylus

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Weale's Running Frog (Semnodactylus wealii), family Hyperoliidae, Free State, South Africa

Photograph by Daren Riedle

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Rattling Frog aka Weale's Running Frog (Semnodactylus wealii), family Hyperoliidae, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Photograph by Chad Keates

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Rattling Frog aka Weale's Running Frog (Semnodactylus wealii), Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

photograph by Chad Keates

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Weale’s Running Frog | ©Ashley Tubbs  (Phumelela Local Municipality, Free State, South Africa)

Semnodactylus wealii (Hyperoliidae), better known as Weale's running frog, Weale's frog, or Rattling frog, is a small (males up to 44 mm), South African Kassina-like frog, monotypic within the genus Semnodactylus.

Weale's running frog has dorsum grey with dark stripes which are normally divided longitudinally. The ventrum is coarsely granular. Hands and feet bright yellow. No discs on hands and feet. 

The voice is a coarse, loud rattle, which lasts half a second, hence the common name of Rattling frog. The sound has been compared with the creak of a cork being removed from a bottle. 

This species is distributed in both the temperate and subtropical regions of eastern and south-eastern South Africa, and can be found in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland.

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