Uperodon taprobanicus

The Sri Lankan bullfrog, Sri Lankan Kaloula, Indian painted frog, Ceylon Kaloula, Sri Lankan painted frog, common bullfrog, or painted globular frog (Uperodon taprobanicus) is a frog that lives in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Appearance

The adult male frog can be as large as 7.5 cm long from nose to rear end. The adult female frog is larger.  The skin on their backs is gray or black with a mark between the eyes.  On the sides, they can be red or orange with an orange mark from the eye to the front leg.  Their bellies are yellow with brown or black spots.  The adult male frog's throat turns black during mating season.

Home

This frog digs holes in the ground calls burrows, but it can climb trees too.  It can live in rice paddies and other places where humans have changed the forest into something else.

Reproduction
After a large rain, the male frogs swim in ponds.  They sing for the females while they swim.  The female frogs lay eggs that float on the water.  The tadpoles are black in color.

Food

This frog hides during the day and looks for food at night.  It eats many kinds of insects and also termites.

Tarantulas

On Rameshwaran Island near India, scientists have seen this frog live in the same burrows as Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica  tarantula spiders.  However, they are not sure whether the spiders use the frogs to protect their eggs or whether the frogs live in the burrows without harming or helping the spiders.  Scientists have seen this species of tarantula eating this species of frog.

Threats

This frog can die from the chemicals that human beings put in the environment.  These are chemicals that humans use on purpose to kill pests, make crops grow, and also pollution.

References

Category:Frogs of Asia