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Terrestrial|Freshwater (=Inland waters)
It is a species of fynbos heathland and grassy fynbos. Only very small remnants of fynbos survive within its range, so very little non-breeding habitat survives. Adults remain concealed in hole or rock cracks during the day, emerging at night to feed or mate during the breeding season, which runs from October to January. It breeds in permanent, fast-flowing perennial rivers and streams with rocky beds in the upper reaches of the Elandsberg and Cockscomb. Females lay up to 150 eggs. Adults and tadpoles are found beneath submerged and partly submerged rocks in these streams, and occasionally at the edge of small waterfalls and cascades. The tadpoles take up to two years to develop.