The black-spotted sticky frog (''Kalophrynus pleurostigma'') is a small frog with a black spot just in front of each of its hind legs. It releases a sticky substance when threatened, thereby making it an unpleasant meal for predators, allowing it to escape from harm.
This species develops in the pitchers of some
carnivorous
A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, ''caro'', genitive ''carnis'', meaning meat or "flesh" and ''vorare'' meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements derive from animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other sof ...
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Nepenthes
''Nepenthes'' () is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mos ...
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[Lim, K.K.P. & P.K.L. Ng 1991. ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' 39(1): 209–214.] a habitat that is fast diminishing locally. On a global scale, it is not yet considered threatened by the
IUCN
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Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - ''Kalophrynus pleurostigma''
Kalophrynus
Amphibians of the Philippines
Nepenthes infauna
Amphibians described in 1838
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