Sumatran puddle frog

Occidozyga sumatrana
Occidozyga sumatrana
from Ciampea, Bogor, Indonesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Occidozyga
Species: O. sumatrana
Binomial name
Occidozyga sumatrana
(Peters, 1877)

The Sumatran puddle frog (Occidozyga sumatrana) is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family. It might be endemic to Indonesia. However, it has often been confused with Occidozyga laevis, and was also for long considered to be its junior synonym. The true distribution of this species is therefore poorly known but likely to be wider (perhaps from India through Malaysia to southern China).[2] Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Iskandar, D. & Mumpuni (2004). "Occidozyga sumatrana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Occidozyga sumatrana (Peters, 1877)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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