East Asian bullfrog
Hoplobatrachus rugulosus
The Chinese edible frog, East Asian bullfrog, or Taiwanese frog is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pasture land, rural gardens, urban areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, open excavations, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. They breed in spring–early summer.
The domesticated Thai variety and wild Chinese populations of ''H. rugulosus'' belong to two separate genetic lineages respectively. Yu et al. suggests that ''H. rugulosus'' may in fact be a cryptic species complex.
The domesticated Thai variety and wild Chinese populations of ''H. rugulosus'' belong to two separate genetic lineages respectively. Yu et al. suggests that ''H. rugulosus'' may in fact be a cryptic species complex.