Leptobrachium hendricksoni Taylor, 1962 is a animal in the Megophryidae family, order Anura, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Leptobrachium hendricksoni Taylor, 1962

Leptobrachium hendricksoni Taylor, 1962

Leptobrachium hendricksoni is a Megophryidae amphibian found in Southeast Asia, threatened by habitat loss, with sexual size dimorphism.

Family
Genus
Leptobrachium
Order
Anura
Class
Amphibia

About Leptobrachium hendricksoni Taylor, 1962

Leptobrachium hendricksoni, formally described by Taylor in 1962, has several common names: Thai spadefoot toad, bright yellow-eyed crawl frog, and spotted litter frog. It is a species of amphibian belonging to the family Megophryidae. This species is distributed in the Malay Peninsula, which includes southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia, as well as Sarawak on Borneo, and Sumatra in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, and also adjacent plantations and heavily degraded former forests. Leptobrachium hendricksoni is currently threatened by habitat loss. In terms of size, males of this species reach a snout-vent length of 39โ€“48 mm (1.5โ€“1.9 in), while females grow to 52โ€“80 mm (2.0โ€“3.1 in).

Photo: (c) Roy Kittrell, all rights reserved, uploaded by Roy Kittrell

Taxonomy

Animalia โ€บ Chordata โ€บ Amphibia โ€บ Anura โ€บ Megophryidae โ€บ Leptobrachium

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