Description
A rather small Leptopelis (males 34-39 mm, females 38-43 mm) from dense forests in the Eastern Arc Mountains with reduced webbing. In life translucent green, sometimes with minute golden spots. Throat of males blue-green. Males with pectoral glands. Tympanum small, indistinct. Although L. uluguruensis and L. barbouri seem very similar in morphology, they are quite easy to separate in the field. The voice and calling site are different, and the dense green dorsal colour of L. uluguruensis is quite distinct from the translucent green colour of L. barbouri.

Distribution and Habitat

Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Tanzania, United Republic of

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A forest species only known from the Usambara and Udzungwas; abundant in the latter mountains, but the species should be searched for in the Ulugurus.

Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special Behaviors
The males call from heights of 2-6 m in branches near streams. The voice is a brief buzzing with an indistinct frequency-intensity maximum at about 1500 cps. and a rate of about 100 figures per second. A pair was found in copulation buried in sloping ground with only their heads visible where no puddles could form, about 10 m from a small stream. To reach water must be a formidable journey for the tadpoles.

Comments
This account was taken from "Treefrogs of Africa" by Arne Schiøtz with kind permission from Edition Chimaira publishers, Frankfurt am Main.

References

Schiøtz, A. (1999). Treefrogs of Africa. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.

Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2014 Leptopelis grandiceps <https://amphibiaweb.org/species/8172> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Dec 4, 2024.

Citation: AmphibiaWeb. 2024. <https://amphibiaweb.org> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed 4 Dec 2024.

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