''Feihyla vittiger'' is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...

in the family

Rhacophoridae The Rhacophoridae are a family of frogs that occur in tropical sub-Saharan Africa, South India and Sri Lanka, Japan, northeastern India to eastern China and Taiwan, south through the Philippines and Greater Sundas, and Sulawesi. They are commonly ...

. It is

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West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

, Indonesia, and has been recorded in

Mount Halimun Salak National Park Mount Halimun Salak National Park is a 400 km2 conservation area in the Indonesian province of West Java on the island of Java. Established in 1992, the park comprises two mountains, Mount Salak and Mount Halimun with an 11-kilometer forest c ...

and

Pangalengan Pangalengan is a district (''Kecamatan'') in the Bandung Regency, Indonesia. It is located south of the major West Java city of Bandung. Main industries of the Pangalengan district include dairy farming and tourism, the latter arising from the po ...

. Common names Indonesian bubble-nest frog and wine-coloured tree bubble-nest frog have been proposed for it.

Habitat and conservation

''Feihyla vittiger'' occurs in vegetation surrounding ponds in mostly secondary montane forest at elevations of

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; it can also be found in ponds near pine and tea plantations. Females lay their eggs on leaves overhanging ponds and attend to them until the eggs hatch into free-living

tadpole A tadpole is the larval stage in the biological life cycle of an amphibian. Most tadpoles are fully aquatic, though some species of amphibians have tadpoles that are terrestrial. Tadpoles have some fish-like features that may not be found i ...

s. ''Feihyla vittiger'' can be locally common. It is potentially threatened by

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caused by small-scale farming, provided that the vegetation surrounding ponds in the plantations is completely removed. It is present in a number of small protected areas and in the Mount Halimun Salak National Park.

References

vittiger Amphibians of Indonesia Endemic fauna of Java Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Amphibians described in 1897 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Rhacophoridae-stub