We stayed at Relais du Masoala for one afternoon and one night before taking a boat to Masoala National Park. After dinner I wandered around the grounds looking for nocturnal herping activity. Mostly I saw a bunch of frogs. At the time, I thought I had seen a few different species, but when I studied the photos I decided that they were all H. madagascariensis.

Here is a list of all the reptiles and frogs I saw on this 2007 trip to Madagascar.

Both Heterixalus madagascariensis and Heterixalus punctatus might be found in this area, though I would guess not in the same small section of forest. The two are very similar, so I can't be sure which species these belong to. However, some of them clearly have orange-ish feet rather than yellow feet, which is a characteristic of H. madagascariensis. So if they are indeed all the same species, I'm guessing they are H. madagascariensis.

Here is a list of all the reptiles and frogs I saw on this 2023 trip to Madagascar.

This dramatically different appearance is adopted by these frogs during the day, when they sleep fully exposed to the sun.