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title: "Tubercled Pygmy Frog"
description: "Microhyla butleri — Anfibi. The painted chorus frog (Microhyla butleri), also commonly known as Butler's narrow-mouthed toad, Butler's pigmy frog, Butler's rice frog, Butler's ricefrog, noisy frog or tubercled pygmy frog, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/tubercled-pygmy-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Tubercled Pygmy Frog

> Microhyla butleri — Anfibi. The painted chorus frog (Microhyla butleri), also commonly known as Butler's narrow-mouthed toad, Butler's pigmy frog, Butler's rice frog, Butler's ricefrog, noisy frog or tubercled pygmy frog, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.

- Scientific name: *Microhyla butleri*
- Category: `amphibians` (Anfibi)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `freshwater` (Laghi e fiumi)
- iNaturalist observations: 1478
- Wikidata: [Q706022](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706022)
- iNaturalist taxon: [24832](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/24832)

## Names

- en: Tubercled Pygmy Frog
- de: Butler-Dreiecksfrosch

## Countries with the most observations

TH (291), HK (287), CN (269), TW (156), VN (62), SG (59), MY (30), KH (5)

## Summary

The painted chorus frog (Microhyla butleri), also commonly known as Butler's narrow-mouthed toad, Butler's pigmy frog, Butler's rice frog, Butler's ricefrog, noisy frog or tubercled pygmy frog, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is found in northeast India, Myanmar, southern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, and Singapore.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, swamps, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, plantations, rural…

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

## Photo

![Tubercled Pygmy Frog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tubercled-pygmy-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: yipsee · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240532346

## Machine access

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