The green puddle frog, rough-skinned floating frog, pearly skin puddle frog, or pointed-tongued floating frog (Occidozyga lima) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Nepal.

Its natural habitats are 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. These frogs are also found in the pet trade.

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O. lima may actually consist of separate species, with Chan (2013) arguing for 3 separate species: (1) Java, Indonesia; (2) southern China to northern Indochina; (3) southern Indochina to Myanmar.

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Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - Occidozyga lima

Occidozyga

Amphibians of Bangladesh

Amphibians of Myanmar

Amphibians of Cambodia

Frogs of China

Fauna of Hong Kong

Frogs of India

Amphibians of Indonesia

Amphibians of Laos

Amphibians of Malaysia

Amphibians of Thailand

Amphibians of Vietnam

Amphibians described in 1829

Taxa named by Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst

Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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