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title: "Rough-sided frog"
description: "Hylarana glandulosa — Amphibien. Hylarana glandulosa, commonly known as the rough-sided frog or the glandular frog, is a species of true frog in the genus Hylarana."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/rough-sided-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rough-sided frog

> Hylarana glandulosa — Amphibien. Hylarana glandulosa, commonly known as the rough-sided frog or the glandular frog, is a species of true frog in the genus Hylarana.

- Scientific name: *Hylarana glandulosa*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibien)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald), `freshwater` (See & Fluss), `jungle` (Dschungel)
- iNaturalist observations: 1075
- iNaturalist taxon: [65582](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/65582)

## Names

- en: Rough-sided frog

## Countries with the most observations

MY (548), TH (144), ID (117), BN (17)

## Summary

Hylarana glandulosa, commonly known as the rough-sided frog or the glandular frog, is a species of true frog in the genus Hylarana. It is native to Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swampland, rivers, freshwater marshes, caves, and plantations. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
In Thailand, it is called h̄mā n̂ảm (Thai: หมาน้ำ; literally: water dog) because its call sounds like a barking puppy.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylarana_glandulosa

## Photo

![Rough-sided frog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rough-sided-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: drtimk · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/340241112

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rough-sided-frog?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).