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Afrixalus
	Afrixalus fornasini
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hyperoliidae
Genus:	Afrixalus; Laurent, 1944
Type species
	Euchnemis fornasinii; Bianconi, 1849 "1848"
Species
	About 35 (see text)
Synonyms
	Laurentixalus Amiet, 2012;

Afrixalus, commonly known as the banana frogs, spiny reed frogs, cat's eye reed frogs, or leaf-folding frogs, is a genus of frog in the family Hyperoliidae.^[1]^[2] They occur in the Subsaharan Africa.^[1] They lay their eggs in vegetation above water, often folding leaves around the eggs for protection—hence the common name "leaf-folding frogs".^[3]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Afrixalus :^[1]

Afrixalus "quadrivittatus" Pickersgill, 2007
Afrixalus aureus Pickersgill, 1984
Afrixalus brachycnemis (Boulenger, 1896)
Afrixalus clarkei Largen, 1974
Afrixalus crotalus Pickersgill, 1984
Afrixalus delicatus Pickersgill, 1984
Afrixalus dorsalis (Peters, 1875)
Afrixalus dorsimaculatus (Ahl, 1930)
Afrixalus enseticola Largen, 1974
Afrixalus equatorialis (Laurent, 1941)
Afrixalus fornasini (Bianconi, 1849)
Afrixalus fulvovittatus (Cope, 1861)
Afrixalus knysnae (Loveridge, 1954)
Afrixalus lacteus Perret, 1976
Afrixalus laevis (Ahl, 1930)
Afrixalus leucostictus Laurent, 1950
Afrixalus lindholmi (Andersson, 1907)
Afrixalus manengubensis Amiet, 2009
Afrixalus morerei Dubois, 1986
Afrixalus nigeriensis Schiøtz, 1963
Afrixalus orophilus (Laurent, 1947)
Afrixalus osorioi (Ferreira, 1906)
Afrixalus paradorsalis Perret, 1960
Afrixalus quadrivittatus (Werner, 1908)
Afrixalus schneideri (Boettger, 1889)
Afrixalus septentrionalis Schiøtz, 1974
Afrixalus spinifrons (Cope, 1862)
Afrixalus stuhlmanni (Pfeffer, 1893)
Afrixalus sylvaticus Schiøtz, 1974
Afrixalus uluguruensis (Barbour and Loveridge, 1928)
Afrixalus upembae (Laurent, 1941)
Afrixalus vibekensis Schiøtz, 1967
Afrixalus vittiger (Peters, 1876)
Afrixalus weidholzi (Mertens, 1938)
Afrixalus wittei (Laurent, 1941)

The AmphibiaWeb lists 31 species. It does not include Afrixalus "quadrivittatus", and does not recognize Afrixalus brachycnemis as a full species.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Afrixalus Laurent, 1944". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
^ "Hyperoliidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
^ Wells, Kentwood D. (2010). The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians. University of Chicago Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-226-89333-4.