Fat little frog in a shallow stream

The eyes of these frogs are tilted upwards so that they can still see well when they are almost entirely underwater.

comments (6)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Deep respect for managing to identify such a common looking one! Posted 8 years ago
1. John Sullivan
  
  Lion
  
  The thick body and somewhat upturned eyes are the identifying features here. But as you can see from the species description, "L. kuhlii" is considered a species complex and might get split into as many as dozens (!) of new species. I'll bet they won't all be so easy to distinguish from each other! Posted 8 years ago

Albert Kang

Lion

Hi John, recent findings indicated Limnonectes kuhlii does not occurs in Borneo and only the population from Java from where they were first described are the true Limnonectes kuhlii.

Recent phylogenetic analysis have lead to the description of several new species from different populations/locations.

Am not sure your observation could be Limnonectes conspicillatus; local name Matang Creek Frog or L. kong if you see this one at Matang or neaby. Or it could also be Limnonectes hikidai which is reported from Mt. Serapi, Kubah NP and Matang.

http://frogsofborneo.org/logbook/359-dicroglossidae/limnonectes/conspicillatus/326-llimnonectescintalubang-3

http://www.frogsofborneo.org/173-dicroglossidae/limnonectes/laticeps/149-llimnonecteslaticeps Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago
1. John Sullivan
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks Albert -- I knew that the L. "kuhlii" complex was being split up, and that L. conspicillatus, L. hikidai, and L. kong were all fairly recently described species in Borneo. I didn't know that L. kuhlii itself had been restricted to Java -- can you point me to a reference for that? Posted 5 years ago
2. 1. Albert Kang
    
    Lion
    
    John, that is mentioned in Wikipedia :
    
    "The original specimen of L. kuhlii was found in Java, and that is the only area where the "true" species occurs with certainty."
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhl%27s_creek_frog Posted 5 years ago
  2. 1. John Sullivan
      
      Lion
      
      At some point in the last couple of years I went through my photos of frogs in the Limnonectes "kuhlii" complex and re-identified the ones that I could, based on details of appearance and location. At that point I changed this one to L. conspicillatus but I neglected to update the ID here on JungleDragon. Doing so now. Posted 5 years ago

The Broad-headed frog

Limnonectes conspicillatus is a species of fork-tongued frogs (Dicroglossidae). Limnonectes are collectively known as fanged frogs because they tend to have unusually large teeth, which are small or absent in other frogs.
Found throughout East and Southeast Asia

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Species identified by John Sullivan

By John Sullivan

Uploaded Feb 19, 2017. Captured Jan 29, 2017 21:24 in Jalan Sultan Tengah, 93050 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

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Captured in the winter. More winter photos.