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title: "Common Squeaker"
description: "Arthroleptis stenodactylus — Amphibians. Arthroleptis stenodactylus, the common squeaker, dune squeaker, narrow-footed humus frog, savanna squeaking frog, or shovel-footed squeaker, is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/common-squeaker
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Common Squeaker

> Arthroleptis stenodactylus — Amphibians. Arthroleptis stenodactylus, the common squeaker, dune squeaker, narrow-footed humus frog, savanna squeaking frog, or shovel-footed squeaker, is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae.

- Scientific name: *Arthroleptis stenodactylus*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibians)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 675
- Wikidata: [Q1940876](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1940876)
- iNaturalist taxon: [326305](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/326305)

## Names

- en: Common Squeaker
- de: Langfingerfrosch
- nl: Common squeaker
- pl: Artrolept długopalcowy

## Countries with the most observations

MZ (156), MW (125), ZM (96), ZA (80), TZ (58), ZW (41), KE (17)

## Summary

Arthroleptis stenodactylus, the common squeaker, dune squeaker, narrow-footed humus frog, savanna squeaking frog, or shovel-footed squeaker, is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae. It occurs widely in the Sub-Saharan Africa and is known from coastal Kenya and eastern and southern Tanzania (including Zanzibar), south to Malawi and Mozambique and southwest to Zambia and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo to western Angola, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and northeastern South Africa. An isolated population in Uganda likely represent another species, and it is possible that the current species circumscription…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_squeaker

## Photo

![Common Squeaker](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-squeaker/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marius Burger · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116731902

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-squeaker?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).