Green Puddle Frog

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Green Puddle Frog

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Occidozyga
Species: O. lima
Binomial name
Occidozyga lima
(Gravenhorst, 1829)
Synonyms
Houlema obscura Gray, 1831
Osteosternum amoyense Wu, 1929

The Green Puddle Frog, Pearly Skin Puddle Frog, or Pointed-tongued Floating Frog (Occidozyga lima) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Nepal. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

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