Fauna - Vertebrates
Hyperolius marmoratus, painted reed frog, Malolotja
Species Information
   

Knocking Sand Frog

Tomopterna natalensis (Smith, 1849)


Southern African Red Data Status: Least Concern
International Red Data Status: Least Concern (2013) IUCN Red List
Comments: Occurs throughout the country but more common in the highveld and middleveld regions. Previously unrecorded except for photograph in Passmore and Carruthers (1979). Currently eighteen localities recorded. This species is endemic to South Africa, Swaziland (R.C. Boycott, 1992)

Habitats:
Open grassland
Seepage zones
Alien forest

map key distribution map


 70 records, from 1982/10/14 to 2019/12/14

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