Bornean Copper-cheeked Frog
Hylarana raniceps
- Class
- Amphibian
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 583
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Description
Chalcorana raniceps, also known as the copper-cheeked frog, white-lipped frog, or Peters' Malaysian frog, is a species of "true frog" in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to Borneo, including Brunei Darussalam, Kalimantan (Indonesia), Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia), although it is likely to occur more widely. Previously mixed with Chalcorana chalconota (treated as a junior synonym or a subspecies) and believed to have much wider distribution, its range was delimited to Borneo in the revision of "Rana chalconota" complex by Robert Inger and colleagues in 2009.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Chalcorana raniceps”.