Chinese edible frog

The Chinese edible frog, East Asian bullfrog, or Taiwanese frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus) is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pasture land, rural gardens, urban areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, open excavations, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. They breed in spring–early summer. The domesticated Thai variety and wild Chinese populations of H. rugulosus belong to two separate genetic lineages respectively. Yu et al. (2015) suggest that H. rugulosus may in fact be a cryptic species complex. H. rugulosus is a large, robust frog, up to 12 cm (4.7 in) or more in snout-vent length. Females are larger than males. They are primarily insectivores.