Aug 9, 2024
Hanging Out With Friends at the Frog Pond at Kubah National Park, Borneo!
Four-lined tree frogs (Polypedates leucomystax), Harlequin Tree Frog (Rhacophorus pardalis) and Giant River Frog (Limnonectes leporinus)!
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Hanging Out With Friends at the Frog Pond at Kubah National Park, Borneo!
Four-lined tree frogs (Polypedates leucomystax), Harlequin Tree Frog (Rhacophorus pardalis) and Giant River Frog (Limnonectes leporinus)!
today's funky frog of the day: the four-lined tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)!!! they're also known as the common tree frog, the golden tree frog, or striped tree frog. they're commonly kept as pets!
photo (c) Steven Kurniawidjaja
Four-lined tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)
Photo by Loh Kok Sheng
A golden tree frog rests on a leaf in Langkawi, Malaysia
Photograph: Graeme Green
(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)
Today’s New Friends from Sama Jaya Nature Reserve in Borneo are a pond full of very cute Puddle Frogs (Occidozyga laevis), many beautiful Brown Marsh Frogs (Pulchrana baramica) and a Four-lined tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)!
Our time in Borneo has come to an end but we have one more extra-special frog to share tomorrow 😊🐸
More Magnificent Friends from the Frog Pond at Kubah National Park, Borneo!
Four-lined tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax), Giant River Frog (Limnonectes leporinus), Dark-eared Tree Frog (Polypedates macrotis), and File-eared Tree Frog (Polypedates otilophus)!
ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE SKIN OF THE TREE FROG Polypedates leucomystax
Amphibians live in varied habitats. This fact probably explains the great morphofunctional diversity in their skins. Although the integument is the structural and functional interface between the organism and its environment, the morphological and complexity of amphibian skin is not fully understand. There is practically no information on the integument of the tree frog Polypedates leucomystax found in Cherrapunjee. Therefore, ultrastructure of the skin of the adult frog of Polypedates leucomystax was studied during the breeding phase with the help of transmission electron microscopy. Adult males and females of Polypedated leucomystax were collected from the study sites at Cherrapunjee. The epidermis consisted of four layers namely, stratum corneum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum and stratum germinativum. Desmosomes, ribosomes, tonofilaments, golgi bodies, vacuoles and collagen fibres were observed in the epidermal cells. The basement membrane composed of collagenous fibres separated the epidermis from the dermis. Pigment cells like pterinosomes, melanophores and iridophores were abserved and these pigment cells may work together to determine the varied skin colouration and patterns displayed in Polypedates leucomystax and may have important roles in adapting this frog to its environment.
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