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title: "Sumatran Puddle Frog"
description: "Occidozyga sumatrana — Amphibien. The Sumatran puddle frog (Occidozyga sumatrana) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/sumatran-puddle-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sumatran Puddle Frog

> Occidozyga sumatrana — Amphibien. The Sumatran puddle frog (Occidozyga sumatrana) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.

- Scientific name: *Occidozyga sumatrana*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibien)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald), `freshwater` (See & Fluss), `jungle` (Dschungel)
- iNaturalist observations: 534
- Wikidata: [Q2243138](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2243138)
- iNaturalist taxon: [25862](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/25862)

## Names

- en: Sumatran Puddle Frog
- nl: Sumatran puddle frog

## Countries with the most observations

ID (221), SG (55), MY (48), TH (9)

## Summary

The Sumatran puddle frog (Occidozyga sumatrana) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
It might be endemic to Indonesia. However, it has often been confused with Occidozyga laevis, and was also for long considered to be its junior synonym.
Its known distribution is restricted to Sumatra and Java, as well as Sipora and Simeulue islands. The true distribution of this species is therefore poorly known but likely to be wider (perhaps from India through Malaysia to southern China). Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is…

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

## Photo

![Sumatran Puddle Frog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sumatran-puddle-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Scott Loarie · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/393369

## Machine access

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