Glyphoglossus guttulatus (Blyth, 1856)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Glyphoglossus > Species: Glyphoglossus guttulatus

Megalophrys guttulata Blyth, 1856 "1855", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 717. Type(s): Not stated, but implied to be originally ZSIC, but reported as lost by Theobald, 1868, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 37: 82. Type locality: "Inhabits Pegu", Myanmar; given as "Schwe Gyen, on the Sitang river, Pegu [= Bago]", Myanmar, by Blyth, 1856 "1855", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24 : 720. 

Callula guttulata — Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 479, 490.

Calluella guttulata — Stoliczka, 1872, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1872: 146; Bourret, 1927, Fauna Indochine, Vert., 3: 262; Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 28.

Glyphoglossus guttulatus — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140. 

Glyphoglossus (Calluella) guttulatus — Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 39. 

Common Names

Burmese Squat Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88; Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 35). 

Orange Burrowing Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 154).

Striped Spadefoot Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 96).

Blotched Burrowing Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 42).

Striped Burrowing Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 204).

Distribution

Mainland (Bago) and peninsular (Mon, Tanintharyi) Myanmar, and most of mainland Thailand through the southern Annamites and southern portions of northern Laos (Xaignabouly, Vientiane Province, Khammouan Province, and Champasak Provinces,195–326 m elevation) and western Cambodia to the southern Vietnam (Dac Lac, Gia Lai, and Kon Tum provinces, 400–1000 m) possibly into the northern part of the Malay Peninsula, although this requires confirmation (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Comment

See Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 481–483, and Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 569–572 (who reported primarily on Thailand but noted Malayan records), for accounts. Heyer, 1971, Fieldiana, Zool., 58: 61–82, reported on the call from Thailand (as Calluella pulchra). See Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 10–11, for the Vietnam record. Recorded for Thailand by Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 77. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 48–49. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 98, provided a statement of range in Vietnam. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 154–155, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 49, commented on range in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 96–97, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 41, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 109: 6, provided a record for the Cadamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 57, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Chan, Belabut, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 202–206, doubted the presence of this species in West Malaysia but did not . Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 34–35, provided a brief account for eastern Thailand and photograph and (p. 30) detailed the range in Thailand. Altig and Rowley, 2014, Zootaxa, 3811: 381–386, reported on larval morphology. See account (as Calluella guttulata), photograph, and map for Vietnam in Vassilieva, Galoyan, Poyarkov, and Geissler, 2016, Photograph. Field Guide Amph. Rept. Lowland S. Vietnam: 62–63. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Duong, Gorin, and Yang, 2018, PeerJ, 6 (e5771): 17, provided a record from Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 204–205, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). See comments by Geissler, Hartmann, Ihlow, Neang, Seng, Wagner, and Böhme, 2019, Cambodian J. Nat. Hist., 2019: 40–63, on specimens collected in Phnom Kulen National Park, northern Cambodia. Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 110, provided a brief account, photographs, and a range map for Thailand. Nguyen, Brakels, Maury, Sudavanh, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Inkhavilay, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (2: e248): 218–249, discussed the range and provided records from Salavanakhet, Champasak, and Xaignabouli Provinces, Laos. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 29, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 35, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos. 

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