{{Short description|Species of amphibian}} {{Speciesbox | image = Ornate Pygmy Frog (Microhyla fissipes).jpg | image_caption = Adult | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Michael Wai Neng Lau, Geng Baorong, Peter Paul van Dijk, Djoko Iskandar |date=2008 |title=''Microhyla fissipes'' |volume=2008 |article-number=e.T135848A4210760 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135848A4210760.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Microhyla | species = fissipes | authority = Boulenger, 1884 | synonyms = ''Microhyla eremita'' <small>Barbour, 1920</small><ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php//Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Microhyla/Microhyla-fissipes |title=''Microhyla fissipes'' Boulenger, 1884 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=18 January 2014}}</ref> | range_map = Microhyla fissipes map-fr.svg | range_map_caption = Distribution (red) }}
'''''Microhyla fissipes''''' (commonly known as the '''ornate chorus frog''') is a microhylid frog from East and Southeast Asia, from southern and central China and Taiwan to the Malay Peninsula. It was previously considered to be the same species as ''Microhyla ornata'' of South Asia; thus the common names '''ornate narrow-mouthed frog''' or '''ornamented pygmy frog''' can refer to either species.<ref name=frost/>
==Description== thumb|left|Developmental stages
As microhylids in general, ''Microhyla fissipes'' is a small frog: males reach {{convert|22|-|27|mm|abbr=on}} and females {{convert|25|-|28|mm|abbr=on}} in snout-vent length.<ref name=ARPM/> Tadpoles are correspondingly small, about {{convert|22|mm|abbr=on}} in total length.<ref>{{Cite journal| last = Hendrix| first = Ralf|author2=Anna Gawor |author3=Miguel Vences |author4=Thomas Ziegler | year = 2008| title = The tadpole of the narrow-mouthed frog ''Microhyla fissipes'' from Vietnam (Anura: Microhylidae)| journal = Zootaxa| volume = 1675| pages = 67–68| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.1675.1.5| url = http://www.mvences.de/Zootaxa/Vences_A133.pdf}}</ref>
==Habitat and behaviour== ''Microhyla fissipes'' is a common and widespread species. It can be found in many habitat types including lowland scrub forests, grassland, agricultural land, pastureland and urban areas. Sub-fossorial in habit, it is also found in forest floor leaf-litter. It is mostly nocturnal, only active diurnally during the rainy season. It breeds in rain pools and other bodies of still water. It tolerates habitat modification and can also occur in non-intensively farmed agricultural land.<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /> In the Peninsular Malaysia, it inhabits upper hill and montane forest where they can be found on low vegetation or around puddles or waterlogged areas.<ref name=ARPM>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwana.com.my/herpweb/page.php?pageid=s_foundk&s_id=41&search1=Microhyla%20fissipes&species=Microhyla%20fissipes&submit=Search! |title=''Microhyla fissipes'' |work=Amphibians and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia |access-date=16 June 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==See also== * ''Microhyla letovirus 1'' – a phylogenetically distinct species of virus hosted by ''M. fissipes''<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bukhari|first1=Khulud|last2=Mulley|first2=Geraldine|last3=Gulyaeva|first3=Anastasia A.|last4=Zhao|first4=Lanying|last5=Shu|first5=Guocheng|last6=Jiang|first6=Jianping|last7=Neuman|first7=Benjamin W.|year=2018|title=Description and initial characterization of metatranscriptomic nidovirus-like genomes from the proposed new family Abyssoviridae, and from a sister group to the Coronavirinae, the proposed genus Alphaletovirus|url= |journal=Virology|volume=524|pages=160–171|doi=10.1016/j.virol.2018.08.010|pmc=7112036|pmid=30199753}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Microhyla fissipes|''Microhyla fissipes''}} * {{Wikispecies-inline|Microhyla fissipes|''Microhyla fissipes''}}
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