Common name:Grass Frog / Asian Grass Frog / Common Pond Frog / Cricket Frog / Paddy Field Frog / Indian Rice Frog / Boie's wart frog / Rice Field Frog
Local name:Katak Padi / Katak Rumput Asia
Scientific name:Fejervarya limnocharis
Family:Dicroglossidae
Residential:Native
MyBIS ID:19488
Description:
Fejervarya limnocharis is a frog species that has pointed snout and its tympanum is distinct. The finger and toe tips of this species are blunted and the first finger is longer than the second. This species has oval or elliptical inner metatarsal tubercle and its back is covered with warts or numerous longitudinal glandular folds. Sometime, this species turns reddish splotch at the middle of the ventral body and grayish green or brownish at above skin. Commonly, this species covered with fine or thick vertebral line and its limbs and lips with dark cross bars.
The measurements of snout-vent length for males are 32 - 50 mm while for females are 48 - 60 mm. This species can be found in grassland and freshwater wetland. This species also typically found in all types of habitat especially disturbed forest and cosmopolitan areas, cleared areas, paddy fields, and villages. In Ulu Muda Forest Reserve, this species can be found along the logging roads. The altitudinal range of this species is up to 700m.
F. limnocharis is a widespread species of frog. It is distributed in Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Sri Langka, Myanmar, Macau, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam.
F. limnocharis is commonly sold as food in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
Quotation: MyBIS; Fejervarya limnocharis
Common name:Green Paddy Frog / Common Green Frog / Common Greenback / Golden-lined Frog / Green Lotus Frog / Red-eared Frog / Leaf frog
Local name:Katak Hijau / Katak Padi Hijau / Katak Sawah Hijau
Scientific name:Hylarana erythraea
Family:Ranidae
Residential:Native
MyBIS ID:09982
Description:
Hylarana erythraea (Green Paddy Frog) is one of the most beautiful south-Asian frogs. This species is sexually dimorphic, with adult females reaching a maximum size of 78 mm in snout-vent length, and males reaching a maximum of 48 mm in snout-vent length (Brown & Alcala, 1970). It feeds on small terrestrial invertebrates such as small millipedes, crickets and ants (Inger & Stuebing, 2005). The Green Paddy Frog has bright to dark green colour with broad dorsolateral fold covered with yellow stripe and broad dark stripe on sides of head and body. It also has pointed and projecting snout. Its fingers are slender and the first finger is little shorter than the second while the toes are nearly entirely webbed.
This species inhabits primary forest, degraded, secondary forest, scrub, grassland, cultivated area or plantation, freshwater wetland and coastal. It is occurs in Brunei, Kalimantan, Sabah and Sarawak and widely distributed in Southeast Asia (Inger & Stuebing, 2005). In Ulu Muda Forest Reserve, the Green Paddy Frog can be found perching on small tree branch near field station at the altitude about 0 - 1100m above sea level.
Quotation: MyBIS; Hylarana erythraea