Round-tongued floating frog
| Round-tongued floating frog | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 Dicroglossidae family. 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 forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.
References
- van Dijk, P.P., Jarujin Nabhitabhata, Zhigang, Y. &Haitao, S. 2004. Occidozyga martensii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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