frogs are pretty cute

Red-spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus), family Bufonidae, found in the SW United States and NW Mexico

Woodhouse’s Toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii), family Bufonidae, Otero County, South Central U.S.

Star-eyed Tree Frog (Ghatixalus asterops), family Rhacophoridae, endemic to the Western Ghats of India

A new species of the genus Brachytarsophrys (Anura: Megophryidae) from Guangxi, China

S. Liu, M. Hou, D. Rao

ABSTRACT

A new species of the genus is described from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of morphological characters: body size relatively small, dorsal skin smooth with a few large tubercles on dorsum and crotch, snout relatively long, eye relatively small, foot relatively short, pectoral glands orange, upper iris blood red and lower iris reddish brown, nuptial pad present on first finger in adult male. Phylogenetically, the new species differs from other species of the genus by a genetic divergence of 4.2–15.7% and 3.3–15.2% in COI and cytb genes, respectively. This study brings the total number of the species of Brachytarsophrys to 12, with ten occur in China and three in Guangxi.

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Banded Bullfrog aka Asian Painted Bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra), family Microhylidae, Brunei

Kogelberg Moss Frog (Arthroleptella kogelbergensis), female, family Pyxicephalidae, endemic to the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa

Described by science in 2017.

The frogs undergo the tadpole stage in the eggs, hatching as fully formed froglets.

Associated with the wet seepages, marshes, and mossy slopes of the Montane Fynbos.

La Brea Poison Frog (Oophaga occultator), family Dendrobatidae, Chocó region, Colombia

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

Borneo Giant River Toad (Phrynoidis juxtasper), family Bufonidae, Sabah, Borneo

Poisonous.

Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans)