About Afrixalus fornasini (Bianconi, 1849)
Afrixalus fornasini is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae, native to Africa. Its common names are Fornasini's spiny reed frog and the greater leaf-folding frog. The specific epithet fornasini honors Italian amateur naturalist Carlo Antonio Fornasini, who collected the type specimen of this species. This frog has been recorded in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, and may also be present in Eswatini. Its natural habitats include temperate forest, subtropical or tropical dry forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, water storage areas, and ponds.
