Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Tiny Shrub Frog

Philautus sp.

Description:

This Tiny Shrub Frog is very small, measuring about 1.5 cm long and 0.8 cm wide. Its whole body is a dark brown color, helping it to camouflage with the ground. There is a black colored splotch on the area around its eyes. On its back, there are many orange spots that are in vertical lines from along its back. The frog's eyes are yellow colored, but its pupil is black. It has two hind legs and two forelegs.

Habitat:

This frog was hopping around in an open sandy area that is surrounded by many clustered shrubs. The climate there was cloudy and I took a picture of it in the early evening. It was on the sandy area at that moment, but later, it hopped away into some shrubs. This was in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Notes:

There seemed to be quite a few of these frogs in that area, but most of them hopped away into the shrubs. Also, I think that this frog is very good at camouflaging, because I almost mistook it for a part of the ground.

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

No Comments

Singapore American School
Spotted by a stud ent at Singapore American School

RW 05, Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta, Indonesia

Spotted on Mar 27, 2013
Submitted on Mar 31, 2013

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Bush frog Kerangas bush frog Bush Frog Blue-eyed Bush Frog

Nearby Spottings

Rose Myrtle Lappet Moth Caterpillar dragonfly Chinese croton, blindness tree, buta buta, picara Chinese evergreen, Thai Aglaonema
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team