Notes on the Biology of Breviceps (Anura: Microhylidae)

Abstract

Breviceps verrucosllS and B. adspersllS are taken to ropresent the two ends of the morphological and ecological spectrum of this genus of burrowing frogs. Both occur in the Durban area, but verrucosllS is typically limited to forest and adspersllS to savanna. B. adspersllS appears to have adapted itself to savanna-living by digging deeper burrows than verrucosllS and by gearing its time of seasonal emergence to the swarming of termites which form its main type of food.