Wednesday 16 April 2008

Banded Bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra)

OTHER NAMES: Chubby Frog, Asian Painted Frog, Rice Frog Bubble Frog
Latin Etymology: Kaloula (?) pulchra (?)
Young Banded Bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra) at Siem Reap, Cambodia - February 2019

Featured Subspecies: ?
Weight: ?  /  Length: 8cm
NO UK STATUS IUCN Red List: Least Concern

Sometimes you go looking for wildlife, sometimes you find it obstructing the outdoor shoe cupboard at 5am while setting off to see different wildlife.  I have historically terrible luck in seeing amphibians internationally, and in fact this was my very first outside the UK!  The circumstances were a bit perculiar; not knowing whether it was poisonous or not (yes, but not in a dangerous to humans way it turns out according to the internet) I had to carefully nudge it with the shoe-cupboard door until it decided to move enough for me to retrieve my footware.

Related Species:
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Kaloula
SUBSPECIES: ?

 - Sighting Locations -
CAMBODIA - Khmer: ហ៊ីង ("Hing")
- A common resident
 - CAMBODIA/SINGAPORE 2019 TRIP: One seen at Siem Reap

Further Notes: BirdForum Opus, IUCN Red List, RSPB, Wikipedia, Xeno-canto

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