Orange Dwarf

Dwarf Mountain Frog (Ingerana baluensis) - Poring Nature Reserve, Malaysia

 

A small frog but a big find for me during my time in Borneo, I had seen one during my first trip to Borneo but my photo had been atrocious so I made it a goal of mine to find this species again and get a better shot. I managed to find quite a few in several different sites across Sabah, this wasn't my first or last one, but it was the one with the most interesting coloration, usually this frog is brown or tan whereas this one was strikingly orange! The definitive website on bornean frogs, "The Frogs of Borneo", says this species may not be rare but is in-frequently encountered by the non-expert naturalist. I was able to find these frogs on a number of occasions, always near a small stream running through the forest, sometimes sitting on low vegetation like this one and sometimes on sloping rocks. Not much is known about its life history. Details about its reproductive mode are a mystery. Even its proper taxonomic standing is a bit of a mystery, IUCN states: "This species probably does not belong in the genus Ingerana, It should probably be assigned to a new genus in the family Ceratobatrachidae."

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