Fejervarya Pulla
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''Fejervarya pulla'' is a species of
frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...
in the family Dicroglossidae. It is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
and only known from its type locality,
Penang Hill Penang Hill is a hill resort comprising a group of peaks near the center of Penang Island, Malaysia. It is located west of the centre of George Town, Penang, George Town. Penang Hill is also known by the Malay language, Malay name ''Bukit Ben ...
. Little is known about this species that might even belong to ''
Hoplobatrachus ''Hoplobatrachus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. This genus is found in both sub-Saharan Africa and southern and south-eastern Asia. It is the sister taxon of ''Euphlyctis'', although there is some evidence that it might be pa ...
'' instead of ''Fejervarya''.


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Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - ''Fejervarya pulla''
Fejervarya Amphibians of Malaysia Endemic fauna of Malaysia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1870 {{dicroglossidae-stub