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The advertisement call, visual signalling, and tadpole of the recently described Phrynobatrachus ambanguluensis are described from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. The call is a soft trill, similar but faster than the call of the sister species P. krefftii from the East Usambaras. Males have been observed flashing the bright yellow vocal sac without calling, which is the second reported non-vocal communication involving flashing the gular pouch in African frogs. The tadpole is generalised, identified by body shape and labial tooth row formula of 2(1)/4. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tadpole of Amietia wittei (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) is described from the highlands of Kenya. It is distinguished from the tadpoles of Amietia ruwenzoriensis and A. angolensis in the region by the numbers of labial tooth rows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]