Characteristics and Classification of Buduk Frogs
These frogs as Asian common toads have black bumps scattered on the sides of the upper body. The local name is frog buduk or puru frog.
Characteristic features
Moderate body size, which has grooves in the supraorbital and supratimic joints, do not have a parietal groove. Webbed fingers swimming in half. Size of adult male 55-80 mm; females 65-85 mm. Skin texture tends to wrinkle with clear pimples. The color of young frogs is generally reddish. Adult frogs are brownish in color, blackish, or reddish, black or brown nodules, head grooves are usually dark brown or black, chin is generally red in male frogs.
Breeding
Lay eggs with hundreds to thousands of items issued in the form of slimy strands, usually in ponds or puddles in full moon nights.
Habitat
Including nocturnal terrestrial frogs that can be found found in subtropics, and tropical habitats up to 2000 meters above sea level. Frogs prefer lowland areas such as disturbed lowland forests, forest boundaries, riverbanks, green dense forests, gardens, and human-dominated agricultural and urban areas.
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Duttaphrynus
Species: Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Synonym: Bufo melanostictus
Characteristic features
Moderate body size, which has grooves in the supraorbital and supratimic joints, do not have a parietal groove. Webbed fingers swimming in half. Size of adult male 55-80 mm; females 65-85 mm. Skin texture tends to wrinkle with clear pimples. The color of young frogs is generally reddish. Adult frogs are brownish in color, blackish, or reddish, black or brown nodules, head grooves are usually dark brown or black, chin is generally red in male frogs.
Breeding
Lay eggs with hundreds to thousands of items issued in the form of slimy strands, usually in ponds or puddles in full moon nights.
Habitat
Including nocturnal terrestrial frogs that can be found found in subtropics, and tropical habitats up to 2000 meters above sea level. Frogs prefer lowland areas such as disturbed lowland forests, forest boundaries, riverbanks, green dense forests, gardens, and human-dominated agricultural and urban areas.
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Duttaphrynus
Species: Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Synonym: Bufo melanostictus
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