# Hose's frog

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**Hose's frog** (***Odorrana hosii***, often misspelled as *O. hosei*) is a [true frog](/source/Ranidae) [species](/source/Species) with a wide range in [Southeast Asia](/source/Southeast_Asia). This species was named after zoologist [Charles Hose](/source/Charles_Hose).

Its closest living relatives appear to be *[O. chloronota](/source/Odorrana_chloronota)* which occurs to the north of Hose's frog's range, as well as *[O. livida](/source/Odorrana_livida)* and *[O. morafkai](/source/Odorrana_morafkai)* with a more limited range in [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar) and [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam), respectively; these four appear to form a close-knit group wherein the northern species are barely closer to each other than Hose's frog is to any of them. Also quite closely related is *[O. megatympanum](/source/Odorrana_megatympanum)*, another Vietnamese [endemic](/source/Endemism).[1][2]

## Description

This frog has a robust body with long, slender legs; males measure 50–60 mm, females 85–100 mm. The dorsal are dark green with brown sides, the ventral are pale, the limbs are marked with dark crossbars. Its finger- and toe-tips bear grooved discs. This frog also have many varians of dorsal colour. Including full green, full brown, green with brown dots, and brown with green dots. Its call heard like "cit" of rats. Its [tadpoles](/source/Tadpole) apparently lack suctorial discs.

## Distribution and ecology

Hose's frog has been recorded from the [Malay Peninsula](/source/Malay_Peninsula) south of the [Kra Isthmus](/source/Kra_Isthmus), on [Phuket](/source/Phuket_Province), [Tioman](/source/Tioman), [Borneo](/source/Borneo), the [Batu Islands](/source/Batu_Islands), [Sumatra](/source/Sumatra), [Simeulue](/source/Simeulue),[3] [Bangka Island](/source/Bangka_Island), [Belitung](/source/Belitung) and [Java](/source/Java). It lives in and along clear, swift streams and rivers in [rainforest](/source/Rainforest) up to 1,700 meters [ASL](/source/Above_mean_sea_level). Though declining in recent times due to [deforestation](/source/Deforestation), it is still widely distributed and plentiful, and there is evidence that it is more tolerant of [pollution](/source/Pollution) and will more readily accept [secondary forest](/source/Secondary_forest) than many other frogs in the region. It is therefore listed as a Species of [Least Concern](/source/Least_Concern) by the [IUCN](/source/IUCN).[4]

Eggs are probably deposited in water in a way roughly similar to other true frogs. But the eggs inside their gelatinous outer layer are cream-coloured without a dark hemisphere, indicating a specialised [oviposition](/source/Oviposition) site.

## Footnotes

1. Cai, Hong-xia; Che, Jing; Pang, Jun-feng; Zhao, Er-mi; Zhang, Ya-ping (2007). ["Paraphyly of Chinese *Amolops* (Anura, Ranidae) and phylogenetic position of the rare Chinese frog, *Amolops tormotus*"](http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01531p055f.pdf). *[Zootaxa](/source/Zootaxa)*. **1531**: 49–55. [doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1531.1.4](https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1531.1.4) [copy](http://biostor.org/reference/17591)

1. Stuart, Bryan L. (2008). "The phylogenetic problem of *Huia* (Amphibia: Ranidae)". *[Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.](/source/Molecular_Phylogenetics_and_Evolution)*. **46** (1): 49–60. [Bibcode:2008MolPE..46...49S](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008MolPE..46...49S). [doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.09.016](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.09.016). [PMID 18042407](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18042407)

1. Sarenha Lawalata, Shobi Zenobia (2011). ["Historical Biogeography of Sumatra and Western Archipelago, Indonesia: Insights from the flying lizards in the genus Draco (Iguania: Agamidae)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220120084057/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Lawalata_berkeley_0028E_11855.pdf). *digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu*. Archived from [the original](http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Lawalata_berkeley_0028E_11855.pdf) on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2018-08-17.

1. Peter Paul van Dijk, Djoko Iskandar, Robert Inger (2004) [*Odorrana hosii*](http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/58618/0). In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.

## Further reading

- (1966): The Systematics and Zoogeography of the Amphibia of Borneo. *[Fieldiana Zool.](/source/Fieldiana_Zoology)* **52**: 1–402.

## External links

- [Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia – *Odorrana hosii*](http://www.amphibia.my/page.php?pageid=s_foundk&s_id=72&search1=Odorrana%20hosii&species=Odorrana%20hosii&submit=Search!#)

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