''Rentapia hosii'', also known as the Boulenger's Asian tree toad, common tree toad, tree toad, House's tree toad (
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), Malayan brown toad, brown tree toad,
[ or Asian yellow-spotted climbing toad,][ is a species of ]toad
Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.
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in the family Bufonidae {{Cat main, Toad
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This category contains both species commonly called toads, and the true toads from the family Bufonidae {{Cat m ...
.[ It is found in the ]Malay Peninsula
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(including extreme southern peninsular Thailand
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), Borneo
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(Indonesia
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, Brunei
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, and Malaysia
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), and Sumatra
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(Indonesia).[
''Rentapia hosii'' is an ]arboreal
Arboreal locomotion is the Animal locomotion, locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. Th ...
toad found in forest and other dense vegetation along large lowland rivers, at elevations below . It breeds in clear forest streams. After metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. Some inse ...
, juveniles disperse through the surrounding forest, gradually becoming arboreal.[
]
References
External links
* Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysi
Sound recordings of ''Pedostibes hosii'' at BioAcoustica
Rentapia, hosii
Amphibians of Brunei
Amphibians of Indonesia
Amphibians of Malaysia
Amphibians of Thailand
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
Amphibians described in 1892
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians of Borneo
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