Corrugated frog

Not to be confused with Corrugated water frog.
Limnonectes laticeps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Limnonectes
Species: L. laticeps
Binomial name
Limnonectes laticeps
(Boulenger, 1882)

The corrugated frog or rivulet frog (Limnonectes laticeps), sometimes (ambiguously) called "flat-headed frog", is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family found in Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, possibly Bangladesh, and possibly Bhutan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, and intermittent rivers. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.[1]

References

  1. van Dijk, P.P., Iskandar, D., Inger, R., Sengupta, S. & Bordoloi, S. 2004. Limnonectes laticeps. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.

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