Painted narrowmouth toad

The painted narrowmouth toad or slender-digit chorus frog (Kaloula picta) is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.

Painted Narrowmouth Toad
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Kaloula
Species:
K. picta
Binomial name
Kaloula picta
(Duméril & Bibron, 1841)

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.[1]

References
  1. 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.
  • Diesmos, A.; Alcala, A.; Brown, R.; Afuang, L.; Dolino, C.; Gee, G.; Hampson, K.; Diesmos, M.L.; Mallari, A.; Ong, P.; Paguntalan, L.; Pedregosa, M.; Ubaldo, D.; Gutierrez, B. (2004). "Kaloula picta". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2004: e.T57854A11694467. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T57854A11694467.en. Retrieved 20 December 2017.


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