Chinese edible frog: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Chinese edible frog lives – recorded in 7 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Hoplobatrachus rugulosus
Group	Frogs & toads
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	7 countries
Continents	Asia
Class	Amphibian
Order	Anura
Family	Dicroglossidae

Where does the Chinese edible frog live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Chinese edible frog in 7 countries and territories across Asia.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the Chinese edible frog endangered?

The Chinese edible frog’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Chinese edible frog?

The Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus) is an amphibian in the order Anura and the family Dicroglossidae, genus Hoplobatrachus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Chinese edible frog

The Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus chinensis), also known as East Asian bullfrog and Taiwanese frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pasture land, rural gardens, urban areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, open excavations, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. They breed in spring to early summer.

The domesticated Thai variety and wild Chinese populations of H. chinensis belong to two separate genetic lineages respectively. Yu et al. (2015) suggest that H. chinensis may in fact be a cryptic species complex.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Chinese edible frog (revision 1314528378), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q711322 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).