Occidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829)
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.
Open encyclopedia reference
Occidozyga lima, the green puddle frog, rough-skinned floating frog, pearly skin puddle frog, or pointed-tongued floating frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Nepal.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. These frogs are also found in the pet trade.
O. lima may actually consist of separate species, with Chan (2013) arguing for 3 separate species: (1) Java, Indonesia; (2) southern China to northern Indochina; (3) southern Indochina to Myanmar.
Wikipedia contributors, Occidozyga lima; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T17:26:44.283821+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Occidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829)
- Name authority
- (Gravenhorst, 1829)
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Dicroglossidae
- Genus
- Occidozyga
- 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
- familyDicroglossidae Anderson, 1871
- subfamilyOccidozyginae Fei, Ye & Huang, 1990
- genusOccidozyga Kuhl & Van Hasselt, 1822
- speciesOccidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Occidozyga. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Occidozyga diminutiva (Taylor, 1922) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga laevis (Günther, 1858) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga magnapustulosa (Taylor & Elbel, 1958) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga martensii (Peters, 1867) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga semipalmata Smith, 1927 | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga sumatrana (Peters, 1877) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga berbeza Matsui, Nishikawa, Eto, Hamidy, Hossman & Fukuyama, 2021 | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga myanhessei (Köhler, Vargas, Than & Thammachoti in Köhler et al., 2021) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga swanbornorum (Trageser, Al-Razi, Maria, Nobel, Asaduzzaman & Rahman, 2021) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga baluensis (Boulenger, 1896) | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga celebensis Smith, 1927 | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Occidozyga floresiana Mertens, 1927 | DicroglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Ooeidozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Gravenhorst, 1829) | synonym |
| Oxyglossis lima (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Gravenhorst, 1829) | synonym |
| Rana lima Gravenhorst, 1829 Gravenhorst, 1829 | synonym |
| Oxyglossus lima chinensis Liu & Hu, 1961 Liu & Hu, 1961 | synonym |
| Oxydozyga braccata Tschudi, 1838 Tschudi, 1838 | synonym |
| Oxyglossus lima (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Gravenhorst, 1829) | synonym |
| Oxydozyga lima (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Gravenhorst, 1829) | synonym |
| Bombinator lima (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Gravenhorst, 1829) | 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=665108 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. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
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:48BSP. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.