Painted narrowmouth toad
Painted narrowmouth toad | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Microhylidae |
Genus: | Kaloula |
Species: | K. picta
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Binomial name | |
Kaloula picta (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
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The painted narrowmouth toad (Kaloula picta), or slender-digit chorus frog, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.
It is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found throughout the archipelago, including Palawan.
Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. Humans may have facilitated the dispersal of K. picta in the Philippines as forests were converted into agricultural-use land.[2]
References
- ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Kaloula picta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T57854A114915125. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T57854A114915125.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ Blackburn, D. C., Siler, C. D., Diesmos, A. C., McGuire, J. A., Cannatella, D. C. and Brown, R. M. (2013), An adaptive radiation of frogs in a southeast Asian island archipelago. Evolution, 67: 2631–2646.
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