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Freshwater (=Inland waters)|Terrestrial

It lives in a coastal mosaic of vegetation types, including mountain fynbos heathland and forest. It breeds in small dams and shallow semi-permanent water with much emergent vegetation, and even in well vegetated ornamental garden ponds. It is suspected that this species requires high water quality for breeding. Species in this genus deposit between 20 and 50 eggs on vegetation above water, folded in a grass leaf. Tadpoles emerge, drop into the water and remain there until metamorphosis.