Marbled shovel-nose, Hemisus marmoratum

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Family Ranidae. Noctural, subterranean; call a high-oitched buzzing, often from mouth of burrow near water. Eggs laid in underground chamber near water; female digs tunnel, down which tadples wriggle to water. Arabuko-Sokoke animals may represent undescribed species.

Size to 31 mm.