Kaloula verrucosa Boulenger, 1904
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 verrucosa. Chenggong District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China
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Open encyclopedia reference
Kaloula verrucosa, the verrucous digging frog or Chinese narrowmouth toad, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is only known from the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau of southwestern China in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces, but it is expected to occur in adjacent Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. It is a very common species that lives in cultivated fields and in villages. Breeding takes place in temporary pools, ponds, and ditches.
Wikipedia contributors, Kaloula verrucosa; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T16:45:43.227908+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Kaloula verrucosa Boulenger, 1904
- Name authority
- Boulenger, 1904
- 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.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibia
- orderAnura
- familyMicrohylidae Günther, 1858
- subfamilyMicrohylinae Günther, 1858
- genusKaloula Gray, 1831
- speciesKaloula verrucosa Boulenger, 1904
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Kaloula. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Kaloula aureata Nutphand, 1989 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula baleata (Müller in Van Oort & Müller, 1836) | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula conjuncta (Peters, 1863) | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula ghoshi Cherchi, 1954 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula mediolineata Smith, 1917 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula picta (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula rigida Taylor, 1922 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula walteri Diesmos, Brown & Alcala, 2002 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula laosensis Poyarkov, Orlov, Gorin & Milto, 2024 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula borealis (Barbour, 1908) | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula indochinensis Chan, Blackburn, Murphy, Stuart, Emmett, Ho & Brown, 2013 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kaloula kalingensis Taylor, 1922 | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Callula verrucosa Boulenger, 1904 Boulenger, 1904 | synonym |
| Kaloula macroptica Liu, 1945 Liu, 1945 | synonym |
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.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=664586 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:3QZLC. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.