Chirixalus pantaiselatan

Chirixalus pantaiselatan is a frog.  It lives in Indonesia.

Appearance
The adult male frog is 25.3–28.9 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog can change color. At night, the skin of the frog's back is brown in color and the belly is pink-white. During the day, the skin of the frog's back is light yellow or light brown in color. The iris of the eye is purple in color. There are dark stripes on the legs and some silver color near the mouth. There is a dark brown spot on each eyelid. There is a diamond-shaped mark on the back. The ear is dark brown in color.

Home
One of the places this frog lives is a protected park: Leuweung Sancang Nature Reserve. This frog was discovered by citizen scientists. They found the frog sitting on plants about 50 cm over the water of a pond.

Name

Scientists named this frog for the Indonesian words for "coast" and "south": "Pantai"  and "selatan." In Indonesian, its name is "katak-pucat pantaiselatan."

References

Category:Frogs of Asia