Green Puddle Frog | |
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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) |
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Synonyms | |
Houlema obscura Gray, 1831 |
The Green Puddle Frog, Rough-skinned Floating 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.