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Kaloula pulchra
Spotted 50M in the Gour Room, Cacupangan Cave System, Brgy. Tagudin, Mabini, Pangasinan, Philippines.
Perennial underground stream.
ID to species by Emerson Sy (Phil. Biodiversity Net). Confirmed by Wally Suarez (Phil. Biodiversity Net). Photo by Jerry Rendon.
I guess it's the presence of the lateral stripe.
K. pulchra - http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_qu...
K. baleata - http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_qu...
Per http://amphibiaweb.org:
K. pulchra - The dorsum is dark brown, sometimes with irregular yellowish-brown spots. A narrow dark lateral stripe is present from the rear of the eye almost to the groin. This lateral stripe is separated from the mid-dorsal dark brown coloration by a thick yellow or orange stripe, which may itself be punctuated with several spots. The belly is mottled dirty yellowish brown. Males have a black throat.
K. baleata - Dark brown overall with white-tipped tubercles giving a granular appearance. Inguinal spot brick red in specimens from Java, other populations with yellow inguinal spots
How can we differentiate it with Kaloula baleata morphologically? they look the same
TY Francis! When and how long were you here? More importantly, when will you visit again? :-)
TY vipin.baliga, I'm still learning my way around this site and will be posting more cave organisms soon.
Spotted on Aug 12, 2011
Submitted on Feb 21, 2012
