Rough-sided frog | |
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Hylarana glandulosa from the Thale Ban National Park, Satun Province, Southern Thailand | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Ranidae |
Genus: | Hylarana |
Species: | H. glandulosa |
Binomial name | |
Hylarana glandulosa (Boulenger, 1882) | |
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Hylarana glandulosa, commonly known as the rough-sided frog or the glandular frog, is a species of true frog in the genus Hylarana . It is native to Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. [2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swampland, rivers, freshwater marshes, caves, and plantations. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN. [1]
In Thailand, it is called h̄mā n̂ảm (Thai : หมาน้ำ; literally: water dog) because its call sounds like a barking puppy. [3]