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Kajang Slender Litter Frog
Leptobrachella kajangensis
Leptobrachella kajangensis, also known as the Kajang slender litter frog, is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae. Its natural habitats are rivers and caves. The species is endemic to Malaysia and only known from its type locality, a small cave near the top of Gunung Kajang (=Mount Kajang), on Tioman Island, a small island located 32 km off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
From the article Leptobrachella kajangensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The type series consists of two adult males measuring 35–36 mm (1.4–1.4 in) in snout–vent length—a relatively large size for the genus Leptolalax (now Leptobrachella). The type locality is a cave, and the type specimens were observed calling near the edge of a pond in the cave. Some tadpoles were collected from the same pond and assumed to represent the same species. There is also an earlier collection of tadpoles from a lower altitude on the same mountain that are morphologically similar to the ones at the type locality but that differ in colouration; they might represent another species.
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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 717442.