Hydrophylax chalconotus

Taxobox
name = "Hydrophylax chalconotus"


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Ranidae
genus = "Hydrophylax"
species = "H. chalconotus"
binomial = "Hydrophylax chalconotus"
binomial_authority = (Schlegel, 1837)
synonyms = "Rana chalconota" (Schlegel, 1837)

"Hydrophylax chalconotus" is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.It is endemic to Indonesia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, plantations , rural gardens, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

Formerly known as "Rana chalconota", that taxon was applied to what is today named "Hydrophylax raniceps". In the 1990s, it became generally agreed that "Hydrophylax raniceps" applied to specimens in northern and western Sumatra, Peninsula Malaysia and Borneo. "Hydrophylax chalconota"'s range is limited to Southern Sumatra, Java and Bali

ource

* van Dijk, P.P., Iskandar, D. & Inger, R. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/58568/all Rana chalconota] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 23 July 2007.