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African reed frog
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Hyperolius (commonly known as the African reed frogs or reed frogs) is a large genus of frogs in the family Hyperoliidae from Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus is known to exhibit sexual dichromatism, a trait that is otherwise rare in frogs.
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Hyperolius (commonly known as the African reed frogs or reed frogs) is a large genus of frogs in the family Hyperoliidae from Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus is known to exhibit sexual dichromatism, a trait that is otherwise rare in frogs.
==Species== Different sources may delimit species differently, and as new species are still being described, different number of species can be found. , Amphibian Species of the World lists 145 species and AmphibiaWeb 155 species. The following list follows the Amphibian Species of the World:
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