Species of Thailand
Green puddle frog
Occidozyga lima
Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst, 1829
In Thai: เขียดจะนา
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 Dicroglossidae 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 marshes, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. These frogs are also founded in the pet trade.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Dicroglossidae
- Genus
- Occidozyga
- Species
- Occidozyga lima
Common names
- English:
- Green puddle frog
- Common puddle frog
- Puddle frog
- Pearly skin puddle frog
- Pointed-tongued floating frog
- Thai: เขียดจะนา
Synonyms
- Osteosternum amoyense, Wu (1929)
- Houlema obscura, John Edward Gray (1831)
- Rana lima, Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst (1829)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)