Green Reed Frog

Diagnosis. The advertisement call (Fig. 15) consists of a brief initial note consisting of 26 pulses followed by five slower pulses, with a duration of 0.41 s. It can be distinguished from species producing only a single note, and those producing only a buzz: H. acuticeps, H. adspersus, H. dartevellei, H. jacobseni, H. lupiroensis, and H. nasutus. It can be distinguished from the other species producing a two-part call, which have a duration less than 0.4 s: H. friedemanni, H. howelli, H. igbettensis, H. inyangae, H. poweri and H. rwandae. It differs from H. benguellensis which only has five pulses in the initial note. See Table 3 for a summary of call parameters. The snout is bluntly rounded, distinguishing it from those with truncated, shark-like or sharply rounded snouts: H. acuticeps, H. benguellensis, H. dartevellei, H. friedemanni, H. howelli, H. inyangae, H. lupiroensis, H. nasutus, and H. rwandae. The webbing has one phalanx free on the first to third toes, just more than one free on the fourth toe, and half a phalanx free on the fifth toe. It can be distinguished from the species that are webbed to the disc on the fifth toe: H. adspersus, H. friedemanni, H. jacobseni, H. lupiroensis, and H. rwandae. It differs from the species that have more than half a phalanx free of web on the fifth toe: H. acuticeps, H. benguellensis, H. dartevellei, H. howelli, and H. inyangae. It can be distinguished from the remaining species that are webbed to the disc on the third or fourth toes: H. adspersus and H. nasutus. Our specimens show the stocky build noted by Schiøtz (1975).