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Round tongued floating frog

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Anura

Genus
  
Occidozyga

Higher classification
  
Occidozyga

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Dicroglossidae

Scientific name
  
Occidozyga martensii

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Frog, Occidozyga, Amphibians, Micryletta inornata, Microhyla fissipes

The round-tongued floating frog (Occidozyga martensii) is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family. Occidozyga magnapustulosus, distributed in scattered locations of northern Thailand and Laos, might be included within it.

Range and habitat

Occidozyga martensii is found throughout most of Indochina. It is found in Cambodia, southern China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan), Laos, northern peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Myanmar.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.

References

Round-tongued floating frog Wikipedia