Microhyla butleri

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 597 meters (1,959 feet).[1]

Ecology: A species of the forest edge , occasionally encountered on the forest floor of primary forest , but most often heard in massive choruses at forest edge puddles and pools . It is also known occasionally from plantations, tall shrublands and cultivated fields . It breeds in relatively permanent still waters , such as grassy pools, marshes, ponds and paddy fields in hilly areas.[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.8     Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.2     Artificial/Aquatic - Ponds (below 8ha)   
  
•     15.5     Artificial/Aquatic - Excavations (open)   
  
•     15.7     Artificial/Aquatic - Irrigated Land (includes irrigation channels )   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Microhyla

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. achatina (Javan Chorus Frog) · M. annectens (Larut Hills Rice Frog) · M. berdmorei (Berdmore's Chorus Frog) · M. borneensis (Borneo Chorus Frog) · M. butleri (Butler's Ricefrog) · M. heymonsi (Arcuate-Spotted Pygmy Frog) · M. mixtura (Mixtured Pygmy Frog) · M. okinavensis (Okinawa Rice Frog) · M. ornata (Ornamented Pygmy Frog) · M. palmipes (Palmated Chorus Frog) · M. pulchra (Beautiful Pygmy Frog) · M. rubra (Guangdong Rice Frog)

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Further Reading

• A collection of amphibians and reptiles from the Cardamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia / Bryan L. Stuart [and] David A. Emmett. 109 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2006. url table 2 , p. 5.
• A vertebrate fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore including the adjacent islands. by George A. Boulenger; edited by H.C. Robinson. London: Taylor and Francis, 1912. url p. 259, p. 261.
• Amphibian species of the world: Additions and corrections / by William E. Duellman. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1993. url p. 202, p. 352.
• Amphibians of western China. [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1950. url p. 252, p. 253, p. 399, p. 46, p. 53.
• Asiatic herpetological research. 6 1995 Berkeley, Calif.: Asiatic Herpetological Research Society; c1990- url zheng & wu, page 161, fig. 1, page 162.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 68.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 194, p. 195, p. 57, p. 59.
• Frogs of Vietnam: a report on new collections / Robert F. Inger, Nikolai Orlov, Ilya Darevsky. 92 1999 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1999. url table 5 , p. 11.
• Journal of the Federated Malay States museums. Kuala Lumpur: F.M.S. Museums, 1906-1929. url p. 281.
• Mating calls of some frogs from Thailand [by] W. Ronald Heyer. 58 1971 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1971. url fig. 4-6 , p. 65, p. 79.
• Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 565.
• Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1913- url p. 3.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 416.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 6.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 189, p. 476.
• Records of the Indian Museum. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, . 1907-1962. url p. 45.
• Secondary sex characters of Chinese frogs and toads. 22 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 150.
• The Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam. [Bangkok, Thailand]: The Society, url p. 214.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 38 1958 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 1040, p. 268, fig. 95, page 558, p. 597.
• The journal of the Natural History Society of Siam. [London: Luzac, 1914]-1924. url p. 268.
• The systematics and zoogeography of the amphibia of Borneo [by] Robert F. Inger. 52 1966 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1966. url fig. 29 , p. 145, p. 152, p. 367.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• van Dijk, P.P., Ohler, A., Kuangyang, L., Wenhao, C., Baorong, G. & Chan, B. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• van Dijk, P.P., Ohler, A., Lue Kuangyang, Chou Wenhao, Geng Baorong & Bosco Chan 2009. Microhyla butleri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Science: Chinese Institude of Biology - Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Amphibian Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Chinese Institude of Biology - Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 29572
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-664595
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 664595
• IUCN ID: 223439
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 132119

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 462.980 based on 42 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. van Dijk, P.P., Ohler, A., Lue Kuangyang, Chou Wenhao, Geng Baorong & Bosco Chan 2009. Microhyla butleri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

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