Round-tongued floating frog

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The round-tongued floating frog (Occidozyga martensii) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. Occidozyga magnapustulosus, distributed in scattered locations of northern Thailand and Laos, might be included within it.

Round-tongued floating frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Occidozyga
Species:
O. martensii
Binomial name
Occidozyga martensii
(Peters, 1867)

Range and habitat

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Occidozyga martensii is found throughout most of Indochina. It is found in Cambodia, southern China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan), Laos, northern peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Myanmar.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.

References

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  1. ^ Peter Paul van Dijk, Jarujin Nabhitabhata, Yuan Zhigang, Shi Haitao (2004). "Occidozyga martensii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T58413A11776182. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58413A11776182.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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