title: Strongylopus
text: Strongylopus ('strongylos'=round, 'pus'=foot) is a genus of pyxicephalid frogs native to Africa. They are found in the area from southwestern South Africa and Namibia to northern Tanzania.  Their common name is stream frogs.
  
  Description
  Strongylopus are small to medium-sized frogs: adult snout–vent lengths are typically in the range of . Species within this genus may be found at altitudes from sea level up to 3250 m in elevation. They generally occur in riparian habitats, including fynbos heath, grassland, montane flooded grassland, savanna and forest edge. Some species occur in more specific habitats, such as Strongylopus kilimanjaro in alpine moorland near cold water streams.
  
  Species
  These species belong to this genus:
   Strongylopus bonaespei (Dubois, 1981) – Banded stream frog
   Strongylopus fasciatus (Smith, 1849) – Striped stream frog
   Strongylopus fuelleborni (Nieden, 1911) – Fuelleborn's stream frog
   Strongylopus grayii (Smith, 1849) – Gray's stream frog
   Strongylopus kilimanjaro (Clarke and Poynton, 2005)
   Strongylopus kitumbeine (Channing and Davenport, 2002)
   Strongylopus merumontanus (Lönnberg, 1910)
   Strongylopus rhodesianus (Hewitt, 1933) – Chimanimani stream frog
   Strongylopus springbokensis (Channing, 1986) – Namaqua stream frog
   Strongylopus wageri (Wager, 1961) – Wager's stream frog
  
  References
  
   
  Pyxicephalidae
  Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
  Amphibian genera
  Taxa named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi