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Pied Warty Frog
Theloderma asperum
Theloderma asperum is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is also known as the pied warty frog, hill garden bug-eyed frog, or somewhat informally, bird poop frog. The frog can be found in the northeastern India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China (Tibet, possibly more widely), Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam as well as Sumatra in Indonesia. However, because of confusion with Theloderma albopunctatum and Theloderma baibungense, it is known with certainty from its type locality in Peninsular Malaysia.
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Description
This frog is 25–35 mm long in snout-vent length. The skin of the dorsum is black with white warts, causing the frog to resemble bird droppings. It has disks on its toes for climbing. The frog has dark red eyes. Unlike other frogs in Theloderma, this frog does not have vomerine teeth.
Range & habitat
Theloderma asperum is a tree bark mimic that breeds in tree holes. It lives in tropical and subtropical submontane forests, where they have been found perched on short plants and tree stumps. The frog is cryptic and hard for people to spot, but scientists think it spends a great deal of time in water-filled holes in trees. The frog has been observed between 0 and 1400 meters above sea level. The frog's range includes protected parks.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 134981.