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Family : DICROGLOSSIDAE
Species : Occidozyga lima
Size (snout to vent) :
Female 4.0 cm, Male 3.9 cm
The Green Puddle Frog has
a variety of common names including Rough-skinned Floating Frog and
Pointed-tongued Floating Frog. This small frog occurs in shallow forest
pools and marshlands.
Its body is thickset, and its head relatively large. Its snout is short, and
its eyes bulbous. Its skin colour is light or dark grey or olive brown, with
a broad yellowish or greenish, irregular vertebral stripe. Its underside is
pale.
The examples shown here were photographed near Phnom Kulen National Park, central Cambodia :
hundreds of frogs were calling loudly from flooded, grassy areas on a warm,
humid afternoon.
The Green Puddle Frog ranges from Myanmar and Thailand through Laos, Cambodia
and Vietnam to parts of southern China (Hainan Island). In Peninsular
Malaysia it is recorded from Langkawi Island in the north. Further south it
is recorded from the Indonesian island of Java.
Fig 1 : Adult with broad, bright green vertebral
stripe, central Cambodia.
Fig 2 : Male inflating its vocal sac while
effortlessly floating in a shallow pool in flooded grassland.
References :
Manthey U., Grossmann W., 1997. Amphibien und Reptilien Sudostasiens.
Natur und Tier - Verlag.
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