Yellow-legged Narrow-mouthed Frog

Fascinating facts about the Yellow-legged Narrow-mouthed Frog

• Even though it lives across a swath from northeastern India to southern China and down to Thailand, the beautiful pygmy frog rarely shows up in surveys because its tiny size and camouflaged colors let it vanish like a leaf in the understory.
• When you wander to the edge of a forest in Southeast Asia, this narrow-mouthed frog prefers those transitional zones where shade meets open ground.
• Human activity has carried this little hopper far from its native range, populations now exist on Guam, an island where it was never originally found.

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About the Yellow-legged Narrow-mouthed Frog

Microhyla pulchra is found from northeastern India through southern China to Thailand, possibly as far south as Malaysia and Singapore, and has an introduced population on Guam. It is a common species in suitable habitat but is cryptic and seasonal, typically occurring near forest edges.

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