Pedostibes hosii

Tree Toad ( Pedostibes hosii )

The tree-toad ( Pedostibes hosii ) belongs to the genus Pedostibes within the family of toads ( Bufonidae ). The spread in Southeast Asia Froschlurch has - like tree frogs - more or less pronounced finger slices on, pointing to his climbing life.

Features

Tree toads of the species Pedostibes hosii be long than males up to 6.5 cm, than females to 10 cm and have a very short snout. On the back of the skin shows characteristic small " warts "; behind the eyes to find the toads typical parotid glands. The animals are greenish - brown to black and have, especially on the flanks and on the limbs, yellow spots. Some females are tinged with purple. The males have a constant throat vocal sac and develop the spawning period Bruns sealed Wielen on the fingers.

Habitat and behavior

Tree frogs are nocturnal and feed on insects, especially ants. You live outside of the breeding season on land, usually on bushes and trees of the rain forest, along major rivers. The juveniles stay first at the bottom and go gradually climbing. During the reproductive period the toads lay numerous Eischnüre in clean running water. There the tadpoles develop until metamorphosis.

Dissemination

The tree-toad Pedostibes hosii comes on the Malay peninsula ( with the extreme south of Thailand ) as well as on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Area, they still occurs frequently; total of the stocks are in decline but when. The species is not able to adapt to changing habitat conditions much as they ( etc. land use, water pollution, forest destruction) caused by anthropogenic environmental changes.