Fejervarya limnocharis ( Gravenhorst, 1829 )

Zijia, Hong, Anuar, Shahrul, Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2021, Preliminary report on the herpetofaunal diversity of Batu Hampar Recreational Forest, Kedah, Malaysia, Check List 17 (3), pp. 791-814 : 794

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/17.3.791

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E82187EC-D747-9D5F-FF14-FA55110756AF

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Marcus

scientific name

Fejervarya limnocharis ( Gravenhorst, 1829 )
status

 

Fejervarya limnocharis ( Gravenhorst, 1829) View in CoL

Figure 3C

Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest ; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 23.IX.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2438 , 1 ♀, USMHC 2439 GoogleMaps .

Identification and natural history. One adult male ( USMHC 2438, SVL 42 mm) and one adult female ( USMHC 2439, SVL 49 mm) matched Berry’s (1975) description in having a moderate head; pointed snout; distinct tympanum approximately 3/5 diameter of eye; blunt finger tips; pointed toe tips; first finger longer than sec- ond; deeply excised toe webbing with at least one phalanx of each toe free; three phalanges of fourth toe free; an oval, inner metatarsal tubercle; a small outer metatarsal tubercle; warty skin on dorsum where the warts confluent into irregular, longitudinal folds; a supratympanic fold; brownish dorsum with darker patches and a yellow

vertebral stripe; back of thigh yellow; dark cross-bars on limbs; dark bars on lips and white venter. Both specimens were found around puddles by trail at night.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Dicroglossidae

Genus

Fejervarya

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