About Occidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829)
Occidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829), commonly called the green puddle frog, rough-skinned floating frog, pearly skin puddle frog, or pointed-tongued floating frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It has been confirmed to occur in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, and may also be present in Nepal. Its natural habitats include subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. This frog is also found in the pet trade. Research indicates that Occidozyga lima may actually be a group of separate species. In 2013, Chan argued that it should be split into three distinct species, with ranges corresponding to: 1) Java, Indonesia; 2) southern China to northern Indochina; 3) southern Indochina to Myanmar.
