Biology:Round-tongued floating frog

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Short description: Species of amphibian

Round-tongued floating frog
Occidozyga martensii.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Occidozyga
Species:
O. martensii
Binomial name
Occidozyga martensii
(Peters, 1867)

The round-tongued floating frog (Occidozyga martensii) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. Occidozyga magnapustulosus, distributed in scattered locations of northern Thailand and Laos, might be included within it.

Range and habitat

Occidozyga martensii is found throughout most of Indochina. It is found in Cambodia, southern China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan), Laos, northern peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Myanmar.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.

References

  1. Peter Paul van Dijk, Jarujin Nabhitabhata, Yuan Zhigang, Shi Haitao (2004). "Occidozyga martensii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58413A11776182. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58413A11776182.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58413/11776182. Retrieved 16 November 2021. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2212262 entry