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It is a species of grasslands (including montane grassland) and dry savannahs, favouring open areas with short vegetation, and is extremely successful in grassy meadows. It breeds in any shallow water body, including vleis, flooded depressions, drainage ditches, puddles, small pools, inundated grasslands and shallow pans, especially where grass is growing. They have been found in large numbers in disused termitaria.

This large toad is stout with a blunt head and squared appearance. The skin is rough and dry with wart-like glandular elevations on the upper side and includes a pair of large and distinctive parotid glands on the neck. The eye has a horizontally elliptical pupil. The hind legs are longer than the body. There are no hard ridges on the heel of the hind foot nor discs on the toes, but the toes are slightly webbed with a narrow margin of webbing along the edges. The upper body surface is brown with irregular pairs of darker brown patches on the back. These are sometimes fused together across the midline and usually there is a dark bar between the eyes. A pale vertebral line may be present from the shoulders downwards. The underside is a dirty white with a granular texture. The loud advertisement call comprises short, rasping duck-like quacks repeated incessantly at about two per second.

This large toad is stout with a blunt head and squared appearance. The skin is rough and dry with wart-like glandular elevations on the upper side and includes a pair of large and distinctive parotid glands on the neck. The eye has a horizontally elliptical pupil. The hind legs are longer than the body. There are no hard ridges on the heel of the hind foot nor discs on the toes, but the toes are slightly webbed with a narrow margin of webbing along the edges. The upper body surface is brown with irregular pairs of darker brown patches on the back. These are sometimes fused together across the midline and usually there is a dark bar between the eyes. A pale vertebral line may be present from the shoulders downwards. The underside is a dirty white with a granular texture. The loud advertisement call comprises short, rasping duck-like quacks repeated incessantly at about two per second.

This is one of the larger sized toads and has the typical square, thick-set build associated with this genus. The skin is rough and dry with wart-like glandular elevations (which are rounded) on the upper side, and includes a pair of massive parotoid glands on the neck behind the eyes. The eye (which is often greenish) has a horizontally elliptical pupil. The legs are longer than the body length. There are no hard ridges on the heel of the hindfoot, nor discs on the toes and fingers, nor are the toes fringed with webbing. The tarsal fold is well developed. Generally, the upper body surface is either uniformly light brown or brown with distinctive dark blotches, and these blotches merge in some populations. The underside is off-white and often covered with small spots, particularly in young specimens. The advertisement call is a series of rasping squawks emitted at a rate of about one per second.

A Small inoffensive Green Water Snake they are very calm natured snakes and seldom if ever attempt to bite.
Found in Hillcrest , Kwa Zulu Natal.