Three-striped Grass Frog

Fascinating facts about the Three-striped Grass Frog

• Spanning eight countries, from Cambodia to Vietnam, this frog lives across forests, grasslands, rivers, and gardens.
• It can be found in dry and moist tropical forests as well as montane woods.
• During the dry season, the species depends on wetlands such as ponds and flooded fields to survive.
• Its survival depends on wetland habitats, so loss of those habitats threatens the species.

At a glance

About the Three-striped Grass Frog

The three-striped grass frog, Hylarana macrodactyla, is a member of the true frog family Ranidae, also known as the Guangdong frog or marbled slender frog. It is found in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, and inhabits a variety of environments including dry and moist lowland forests, montane forests, seasonally wet or flooded lowland grasslands, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and irrigated land. The species relies on wetland refuges during the dry season to sustain its populations.

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