Pulchrana picturata (Boulenger, 1920)

Chan, Kin Onn, Muin, Mohd Abdul, Anuar, Shahrul, Andam, Joel, Razak, Norazlinda & Aziz, Mohd Azizol, 2019, First checklist on the amphibians and reptiles of Mount Korbu, the second highest peak in Peninsular Malaysia, Check List 15 (6), pp. 1055-1069 : 1064

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/15.6.1055

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scientific name

Pulchrana picturata (Boulenger, 1920)
status

 

Pulchrana picturata (Boulenger, 1920) View in CoL

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Materials examined. Seroja Camp (04°39.415′N, 101° 16.333′E), 2 July 2019, (GKA020–021,059; HC1035–36).

Identification. Vomerine teeth present; tympanum distinct; skin on dorsum covered with small, flat, tubercles; supratympanic fold weak to absent; with or without a dor- solateral row of low-lying chain of enlarged, fused gran- ules; venter smooth; dorsal color black; back and flanks covered with yellow/orange spots; orange spots form a discontinuous, dorsolateral stripe which extends from tip of snout, through the upper eyelid to the groin; limbs with orange blotches which sometimes form crossbars; venter gray to brown, with or without white spots. These charac- ters are in agreement with ( Brown and Siler 2014).

Remarks. Males were commonly heard calling at night from dense vegetation, debris, or root tangles along moderate-sized to large streams.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Ranidae

Genus

Pulchrana

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