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China's smallest frog! First discovery in Guangdong

Guess how big the smallest frog in China is?

Guess where it "lives"?

China's smallest frog! First discovery in Guangdong

Well, I won't sell it to everyone anymore

Let's take a look at our protagonist today —

The back is brownish brown

Small in stature

The jump height is about 10cm, and the long-range is nearly 50cm

Known as "China's Smallest Frog"

Lu's little tree frog

A few days ago, it was found for the first time to "live" in Zhuhai

It's this little guy

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China's smallest frog! First discovery in Guangdong

According to the official website of the Guangdong Forestry Bureau

November 4 news

Guangdong Zhuhai Qi'ao-Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve

A few days ago, when the wetland sample line survey was carried out

It was first spotted

News knows a lot

The Loh tree frog belongs to the frog family, Tree frog family, endemic to China, and the model origin is Hong Kong. It inhabits shrubland or grassland in and around submerged puddles under seaside caves.

The species is nocturnal, hiding in trees or dead leaf bottoms during the day, preying on termites or other small insects. Tadpoles are brown, transparent at the tail, with brown dots on them, and metamorphosis is completed in about 4-6 weeks.

China's smallest frog! First discovery in Guangdong

The staff of the reserve introduced, "Frogs are one of the key targets of this sample line survey, we found that the Lu's small tree frog was in a humid habitat with streams, at that time heard a more unique call, and saw that it has a strong jumping ability, visual jump height of about 10cm, long distance is nearly 50cm, you know, Lu's small tree frog is only 1-2cm long." ”

Other words

Your thumb may be longer than it!

It is reported that it is currently in China

It is only found on the islands of Lamma, Tai Ho and Po Tai in Hong Kong

and 100,000 mountains in Guangxi

Hainan Wuzhishan and other places

Listed endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2004 and protected by Chapter 170 of the Wildlife Conservation Ordinance. The discovery of the Lu small tree frog fills the geographical gap in its distribution in Guangdong Province, and provides new data for the distribution and habitat research of the tree frog family.

China's smallest frog! First discovery in Guangdong

Lu's little tree frog:

"Look at my body, have you found me?"

Comprehensive: Guangdong Forestry Bureau official website, Guangdong release

Source: Guangdong public DV site