Common puddle frog

Occidozyga laevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Subfamily: Occidozyginae
Genus: Occidozyga
Species: O. laevis
Binomial name
Occidozyga laevis
(Günther, 1858)

The common puddle frog, puddle frog, or yellow bellied puddle frog (Occidozyga laevis) is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family. It has often been confused with Occidozyga sumatrana (which until 1998 was considered to be a junior synonym O. laevis[2]), and records of this species outside the Philippines likely represent that species.[3] Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater marshes, coastal freshwater lagoons, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and introduced vegetation.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Diesmos, A.; Alcala, A.; Brown, R.; Afuang, L.; Gee, G.; Sukumaran, J.; Yaakob, N.; Tzi Ming, L.; Chuaynkern, Y.; Thirakhupt, K.; et al. (2004). "Occidozyga laevis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Occidozyga sumatrana (Peters, 1877)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  3. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Occidozyga laevis (Günther, 1858)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 August 2014.


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