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Kaloula conjuncta (Peters, 1863)

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Kaloula conjuncta.

Kaloula conjuncta.

Gonzalez JCT, de Guia APO, Dimalibot JC, Pantua KV, Gustilo WO, Bantayan NC (2020) Understorey to canopy vertebrate fauna of a lowland evergreen forest in Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve, Philippines. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e56999. · CC BY 4.0 · Image source

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Open encyclopedia reference

The Philippine narrowmouth toad or the truncate-toed chorus frog (Kaloula conjuncta) is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Wikipedia contributors, Philippine narrowmouth toad; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T16:44:14.936536+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Kaloula conjuncta (Peters, 1863)
Name authority
(Peters, 1863)
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Amphibia
Order
Anura
Family
Microhylidae
Genus
Kaloula
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibia
  9. orderAnura
  10. familyMicrohylidae Günther, 1858
  11. subfamilyMicrohylinae Günther, 1858
  12. genusKaloula Gray, 1831
  13. speciesKaloula conjuncta (Peters, 1863)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Kaloula. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Kaloula aureata Nutphand, 1989MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula baleata (Müller in Van Oort & Müller, 1836)MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula ghoshi Cherchi, 1954MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula mediolineata Smith, 1917MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula picta (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula rigida Taylor, 1922MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula verrucosa Boulenger, 1904MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula walteri Diesmos, Brown & Alcala, 2002MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula laosensis Poyarkov, Orlov, Gorin & Milto, 2024MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula borealis (Barbour, 1908)MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula indochinensis Chan, Blackburn, Murphy, Stuart, Emmett, Ho & Brown, 2013MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kaloula kalingensis Taylor, 1922MicrohylidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

Browse 516 records assigned to Microhylidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=664578 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:3QZKN. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.