Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Hallowell, 1861)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 244

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968127
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF69-B885-FF6B-478D7D130C21
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scientific name	Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Hallowell, 1861)
status

Treatment

Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Hallowell, 1861) View in CoL View at ENA — Non-native; Introduced.

Black-spotted Frog

Singapore records.

No published records.

Remarks. Two specimens of P. nigromaculatus are deposited at ROM. Pelophylax nigromaculatus is distributed from southwestern China north to eastern Russia, and Korea and Japan (Wang et al. 2016). There are no records of P. nigromaculatus being imported into Singapore for food; however, the possibility exists that the specimens were brought in as food or as pets.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): ROM.

Class Reptilia Laurenti, 1768 (34 species)

Order Crocodylia Owen, 1842 (1 species)

Family Crocodylidae Gray, 1825 (1 species)

Genus Tomistoma Müller, 1846 (1 species)