Mandai Track 15 next to rifle range, Aug 1999 Kaloula pulchra English: Banded Bullfrog Chinese: 花狭口蛙 (hua1 xia2 kou3 wa1) (trans. flowery narrow-mouthed frog) Call: Single 'queeg' or 'quaag' sound. Habitat: Disturbed forest and agricultural areas According to Lim and Lim, it is a burrowing animal. Also, it is supposed to be a native of Malaysia that has spread to Singapore. Bukit Timah Railway Station ditch, Sept 2000

BTNR, Aug 2001 This one was happily munching on ants in the middle of a well-travelled path: Boon Lay MRT, Oct 2000

BTNR, 4 Aug 2004

Kalophrynus pleurostigma English: Black-spotted Sticky Frog Diagnostic: Black spot on side just in front of hind leg. Habitat: Leaf-litter.

MacRitchie Reservoir, Aug 2000

Microhyla mantheyi (formerly confused with Microhyla borneensis) English: Manthey's Chorus Frog

Bedok reclaimed land (Feb 2001).

Raised from tadpole taken from Bedok reclaimed land (Jan 2001). Microhyla butleri English: Painted Chorus Frog Description: The tadpole is unmistakable with it's reddish fins and round transparent body. Diet: Tadpole feeds on plankton. Diagnostic: It looks like a minature Banded Bullfrog. Tadpole is unmistakable with it's transparent balloon vacuum cleaner body and reddish fins ending in a whip-like tail tip. Habitat: Disturbed forest, agricultural land, gardens. Tadpoles station themselves in mid-water in pools of permanent water. Range: Found at East Coast reclaimed land (2001), Nee Soon Pipeline (2000). Status: Common.

Raised from tadpole taken from Bedok reclaimed land (Jan 2001).

Bedok reclaimed land (Jan 2001).

Bedok reclaimed land (Jan 2001).

Microhyla heymonsi English: Dark-sided Chorus Frog Description: Tadpoles look like Whitespots at first glance. Behaviour: Tadpoles gaze the surface of the water for small particles of food. Diagnosis: Small frog with black sides. Habitat: Disturbed forest, agricultural land, gardens. Tadpoles stationary at the top or upper-half of water in very shallow pools. Status: Common. Pictures on the right are of a mating pair (smaller male on top) found in August 2000 beside a pond in a ditch along Old Upper Thomson Road and Lower Pierce Forest. The pictures below are from a reared pair of tadpoles from the reclaimed land between Bedok and East Coast Parkway (Jan 2001). (Bedok reclaimed land, Feb 2001.) (Rasied from tadpole taken from Bedok reclaimed land, Jan 2001.)

(Old Upper Thomson Road, Aug 2000.)

Microhyla fissipes English: East Asian Ornate Chorus Frog Suspected to be introduced.